Author: Joseph Schulman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470757418
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
With accompanying software! Clinicians manage a lot of data - on assorted bits of paper and in their heads. This book is about better ways to manage and understand large amounts of clinical data. Following on from his ground breaking book, Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care, Joseph Schulman has produced this eminently readable guide to patient data analysis. He demystifies the technical methodology to make this crucial aspect of good clinical practice understandable and usable for all health care workers. Computer technology has been relatively slow to transform the daily work of health care, the way it has transformed other professions that work with large amounts of data. Each day, we do our work as we did it the day before, even though current technology offers much better ways. Here are much better ways to document and learn from the daily work of clinical care. Here are the principles of data management and analysis and detailed examples of how to implement them using computer technology. To show you that the knowledge is scalable and useful, and to get you off to a running start, the book includes a complete point of care database software application tailored to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). With examples from the NICU and the pediatric ward, this book is aimed specifically at the neonatal and pediatric teams. The accompanying software can be downloaded on to your system or PDA, so that continual record assessment becomes second nature – a skill that will immeasurably improve practice and outcomes for all your patients.
Managing your Patients' Data in the Neonatal and Pediatric ICU
Author: Joseph Schulman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470757418
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
With accompanying software! Clinicians manage a lot of data - on assorted bits of paper and in their heads. This book is about better ways to manage and understand large amounts of clinical data. Following on from his ground breaking book, Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care, Joseph Schulman has produced this eminently readable guide to patient data analysis. He demystifies the technical methodology to make this crucial aspect of good clinical practice understandable and usable for all health care workers. Computer technology has been relatively slow to transform the daily work of health care, the way it has transformed other professions that work with large amounts of data. Each day, we do our work as we did it the day before, even though current technology offers much better ways. Here are much better ways to document and learn from the daily work of clinical care. Here are the principles of data management and analysis and detailed examples of how to implement them using computer technology. To show you that the knowledge is scalable and useful, and to get you off to a running start, the book includes a complete point of care database software application tailored to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). With examples from the NICU and the pediatric ward, this book is aimed specifically at the neonatal and pediatric teams. The accompanying software can be downloaded on to your system or PDA, so that continual record assessment becomes second nature – a skill that will immeasurably improve practice and outcomes for all your patients.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470757418
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
With accompanying software! Clinicians manage a lot of data - on assorted bits of paper and in their heads. This book is about better ways to manage and understand large amounts of clinical data. Following on from his ground breaking book, Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care, Joseph Schulman has produced this eminently readable guide to patient data analysis. He demystifies the technical methodology to make this crucial aspect of good clinical practice understandable and usable for all health care workers. Computer technology has been relatively slow to transform the daily work of health care, the way it has transformed other professions that work with large amounts of data. Each day, we do our work as we did it the day before, even though current technology offers much better ways. Here are much better ways to document and learn from the daily work of clinical care. Here are the principles of data management and analysis and detailed examples of how to implement them using computer technology. To show you that the knowledge is scalable and useful, and to get you off to a running start, the book includes a complete point of care database software application tailored to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). With examples from the NICU and the pediatric ward, this book is aimed specifically at the neonatal and pediatric teams. The accompanying software can be downloaded on to your system or PDA, so that continual record assessment becomes second nature – a skill that will immeasurably improve practice and outcomes for all your patients.
Preventive Newborn Health
Author: Balaji Govindaswami
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
ISBN: 9352704738
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This book is a complete guide to neonatal care, covering preventive medicine, and the diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders. Divided into ten sections, the text begins with an introduction to newborn medicine and the delivery of healthcare services. The following sections cover normal newborn care, perinatal problems, metabolism and cardiorespiratory disorders, foetal and neonatal brain development, growth and nutrition, and pain, medication and addiction. The book concludes with a selection of miscellaneous topics including neonatal skin disorders, orthopaedic problems, oxygenation, gastrointestinal disease, and nephrology. Authored by a highly experienced group of experts led by West Virginia-based Balaji Govindaswami, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by clinical illustrations and figures. Key points Comprehensive guide to prevention and management of neonatal disorders Includes discussion on the impact of addiction on foetal and infant brain structure and function Highly experienced author team led by West Virginia-based expert Features illustrations and figures to further enhance text
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
ISBN: 9352704738
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This book is a complete guide to neonatal care, covering preventive medicine, and the diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders. Divided into ten sections, the text begins with an introduction to newborn medicine and the delivery of healthcare services. The following sections cover normal newborn care, perinatal problems, metabolism and cardiorespiratory disorders, foetal and neonatal brain development, growth and nutrition, and pain, medication and addiction. The book concludes with a selection of miscellaneous topics including neonatal skin disorders, orthopaedic problems, oxygenation, gastrointestinal disease, and nephrology. Authored by a highly experienced group of experts led by West Virginia-based Balaji Govindaswami, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by clinical illustrations and figures. Key points Comprehensive guide to prevention and management of neonatal disorders Includes discussion on the impact of addiction on foetal and infant brain structure and function Highly experienced author team led by West Virginia-based expert Features illustrations and figures to further enhance text
The Problem of Practice Variation in Newborn Medicine
Author: Joseph Schulman
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303094655X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) teams in the US and around the world receive performance reports that locate their particular value for selected process and outcome measures within the range of values from all reporting NICUs. Understandably, many providers focus primarily, if not exclusively, on their particular value. When a value appears undesirable, providers often justify it in an apparent reflex response rather than critically analysing their data. Exceedingly few reflect on the width or implications of the range within which their performance lies. Standard medical education does not include these skills, yet unwarranted practice variation necessarily compromises a population’s overall quality of care. Researchers report wide variation in health care resource use with little connection to patient outcomes, challenging the belief that directing incrementally more resources at certain healthcare problems necessarily produces better results. This book provides requisite knowledge to enable readers without research expertise to understand the notion of unwarranted practice variation, how to recognize it, its ubiquity, and why it is generally undesirable – why narrowing is pervasiveness improves quality. The book begins by describing practice variation, its prevalence, and why it matters. Next, it examines alternative conceptualizations of NICU work. One view is task-oriented, while the other is aim-oriented. NICU teams rarely articulate their aims explicitly, so this book offers examples that guide thinking and action. Finally, this book asks, “Which rate is 'right'; what is the performance target?” The answer entails identifying the lowest resource use rate associated with desirable outcomes. This requires data describing efficient and predictably performing provision of current evidence-based care, along with relationships to a variety of outcomes. Provider conceptualization of healthcare quality also is often vague. The challenge lies in defining this notion operationally. This book does precisely that and gives readers tools to think critically about process, outcome, and quality measures, via some understanding of systems, risk-adjustment modelling, and discriminating signal from noise in process data.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303094655X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) teams in the US and around the world receive performance reports that locate their particular value for selected process and outcome measures within the range of values from all reporting NICUs. Understandably, many providers focus primarily, if not exclusively, on their particular value. When a value appears undesirable, providers often justify it in an apparent reflex response rather than critically analysing their data. Exceedingly few reflect on the width or implications of the range within which their performance lies. Standard medical education does not include these skills, yet unwarranted practice variation necessarily compromises a population’s overall quality of care. Researchers report wide variation in health care resource use with little connection to patient outcomes, challenging the belief that directing incrementally more resources at certain healthcare problems necessarily produces better results. This book provides requisite knowledge to enable readers without research expertise to understand the notion of unwarranted practice variation, how to recognize it, its ubiquity, and why it is generally undesirable – why narrowing is pervasiveness improves quality. The book begins by describing practice variation, its prevalence, and why it matters. Next, it examines alternative conceptualizations of NICU work. One view is task-oriented, while the other is aim-oriented. NICU teams rarely articulate their aims explicitly, so this book offers examples that guide thinking and action. Finally, this book asks, “Which rate is 'right'; what is the performance target?” The answer entails identifying the lowest resource use rate associated with desirable outcomes. This requires data describing efficient and predictably performing provision of current evidence-based care, along with relationships to a variety of outcomes. Provider conceptualization of healthcare quality also is often vague. The challenge lies in defining this notion operationally. This book does precisely that and gives readers tools to think critically about process, outcome, and quality measures, via some understanding of systems, risk-adjustment modelling, and discriminating signal from noise in process data.
Handbook of Research on Advances in Health Informatics and Electronic Healthcare Applications: Global Adoption and Impact of Information Communication Technologies
Author: Khoumbati, Khalil
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1605660310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"This book presents a comprehensive resource elucidating the adoption and usage of health informatics"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1605660310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"This book presents a comprehensive resource elucidating the adoption and usage of health informatics"--Provided by publisher.
Health Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 160566989X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 2311
Book Description
"This reference set provides a complete understanding of the development of applications and concepts in clinical, patient, and hospital information systems"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 160566989X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 2311
Book Description
"This reference set provides a complete understanding of the development of applications and concepts in clinical, patient, and hospital information systems"--Provided by publisher.
Measuring Livelihoods and Environmental Dependence
Author: Arild Angelsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136537325
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural realities. In particular, 'the hidden harvest' from natural resources is generally too important to livelihoods for development research, policies and practice to ignore. Fieldwork using state-of-the-art methods, and in particular well-designed household questionnaires, thus becomes an imperative to adequately capture key dimensions of rural welfare. This book describes how to do a better job when designing and implementing household and village surveys for quantitative assessment of rural livelihoods in developing countries. It covers the entire research process from planning to sharing research results. It draws on the experiences from a large global-comparative project, the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), to develop more robust and validated methods, enriched by numerous practical examples from the field. The book will provide an invaluable guide to methods and a practical handbook for students and professionals.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136537325
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year. Unfortunately, many suffer from weaknesses in methods and problems in implementation. Quantifying households' dependence on multiple environmental resources (forests, bush, grasslands and rivers) is particularly difficult and often simply ignored in the surveys. The results therefore do not reflect rural realities. In particular, 'the hidden harvest' from natural resources is generally too important to livelihoods for development research, policies and practice to ignore. Fieldwork using state-of-the-art methods, and in particular well-designed household questionnaires, thus becomes an imperative to adequately capture key dimensions of rural welfare. This book describes how to do a better job when designing and implementing household and village surveys for quantitative assessment of rural livelihoods in developing countries. It covers the entire research process from planning to sharing research results. It draws on the experiences from a large global-comparative project, the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), to develop more robust and validated methods, enriched by numerous practical examples from the field. The book will provide an invaluable guide to methods and a practical handbook for students and professionals.
Index Medicus
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 2454
Book Description
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 2454
Book Description
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, 3 Volume Set
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470649194
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 2125
Book Description
Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and consultant in the field. It contains more practical chapters and health care examples and additional material on methods and techniques of risk reduction and management. It also revises the structure of the previous edition, and focuses on operational and organizational structure rather than risk areas and functions. The three volumes are written using a practical and user-friendly approach.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470649194
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 2125
Book Description
Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and consultant in the field. It contains more practical chapters and health care examples and additional material on methods and techniques of risk reduction and management. It also revises the structure of the previous edition, and focuses on operational and organizational structure rather than risk areas and functions. The three volumes are written using a practical and user-friendly approach.
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life
Author: Stuart J. Youngner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199974411
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. The chapters examine a range of ethical topics related to death, dying, palliative care and decision-making at the end of life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199974411
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. The chapters examine a range of ethical topics related to death, dying, palliative care and decision-making at the end of life.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description