Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2001 & 2003 Give your hospitalised patients the most efficient and high-quality care! As the only book that focuses on care of the hospitalised patient, Hospital Medicine gives you the "edge" you need in today's ever changing healthcare environment. You'll reach for this book time and again for practical, state-of-the-art coverage and authoritative insights that will help you continue to practice successfully, regardless of your area of specialisation. This "first-of-its-kind" text brings you evidence based medicine that is geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management. Only in Hospital Medicine will you find: indications for admissions, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms that facilitate quick and accurate diagnoses, and critical paths detailing effective plus outcomes orientated treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders

Two doctors and experts in the study of patient safety and hospital quality provide a close-up look at the medical errors that occur in America's overburdened, underinsured, and often unaccountable health-care system, furnishing compelling real-life cases of medical mistakes and suggesting basic procedures and remedies to save lives. 75,000 first printing.

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Examines the political side of the AIDS epidemic and looks at the evolving relationship between patients, doctors, and government in all matters of health policy