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Textbook of Surgery
Joe Tjandra
Textbook of Surgery is a core book for medical and surgical students providing a comprehensive overview of general and speciality surgery. Each topic is written by an expert in the field. The book focuses on the principles and techniques of...
Evidence-Based Rheumatology
Peter Brooks
Compiled by Cochrane collaborators and members of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology), Evidence-based Rheumatology is an essential resource for evidence-based medicine as applied to the musculoskeletal disorders. The introductory section...
Women's Imaging
Haydee Ojeda-Fournier
The first complete reference dedicated to the full spectrum of women's imaging topics «Women’s imaging» refers to the use of imaging modalities (X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, and MRI) available for aiding in the diagnosis and care of such...
Interpreting Trauma Radiographs
Jonathan McConnell
As advanced practices and role extension within the healthcare sector continues unabated, increasingly practitioners seek ways to widen their professional remit and develop and add to their skills. Interpreting Trauma Radiographs provides a...
Respiratory Tract Mucus
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Prevention is Primary
Larry Cohen
At a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for public health, Prevention is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. Written in accessible and understandable language, this...
Quality By Design
Marjorie Godfrey M.
Quality by Design reflects the research and applied training conducted at Dartmouth Medical School under the leadership of Gene Nelson, Paul Batalden, and Marjorie Godfrey. The book includes the research results of high-performing clinical...
Measuring Health Care
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This invaluable guide shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes....
Advancing Health Literacy
Christina Zarcadoolas
Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health and outlines a practical, effective model that bridges the...
Effective Interprofessional Education
Marilyn Hammick
This volume presents a systematic review of interprofessional education in health and social care. This is accompanied by a wider-ranging critique of interprofessional education, grounded by experience, and informed by sources beyond the...
Effective Interprofessional Education
Marilyn Hammick
This volume presents a practical guide to the development, application and evaluation of effective interprofessional education in health and social care. It is both a practice manual for those in hands-on roles and a reflective guide for those...
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Antoni Torres
Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) refers to pneumonia acquired outside of hospitals or extended-care facilities, and is distinct from Nosocomial or hospital-acquired pneumonia, which is a separate disease entity. It is one of the most common...
Randomized Controlled Trials
Alehandro Jadad R.
Randomized controlled trials are one of the most powerful and revolutionary tools of research. This book is a convenient and accessible description of the underlying principles and practice of randomized controlled trials and their role in...
Health of Mankind
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Evidence-Based Practice
Liz Trinder
Evidence-based practice is an idea whose time has come. Few concepts can have achieved the status of unchallengeable common sense in such a short space of time, and across such a broad range of professional activity. As yet there have been few...
Continuing Professional Development
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Therapists must increase their understanding of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain and improve competence. Every practitioner will need to take steps to maintain and demonstrate continued competence under the provisions of the...
Introduction to Syndemics
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This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that addresses underlying social and environmental causes. This perspective complements single-issue...
Health Information Management
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This is the fifth edition of the definitive reference source on the management of health records. Health Information Management provides the basic guidelines on content and structure, analysis, assessment, and improvement of information critical...
Putting Patients First
Susan Frampton B.
The second edition of Putting Patients First showcases what Planetree facilities and the Planetree organization have learned about the commitments, conditions, practices, and policies that are needed to do more than give lip service to...
Public Health Genomics
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recognized genomics as a priority area in public health education. To help public health students and professionals achieve proficiency in the language of genetics and attain genomics competencies...
ABC of Adolescence
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Adolescents undergo rapid physical, psychological and social developmental changes that result in management challenges, communication issues, patterns of disease and symptom presentations that are different from children or adults. This can be...
Human Cataract Formation
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Corneal Graft Failure
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Evidence-Based Ophthalmology
Richard Wormald
Evidence-Based Ophthalmology offers a unique approach to managing eye disease. From systematic reviewing of evidence, this book provides an overview of techniques for optimum management in key areas, including glaucoma, cataract and retinal...
Evidence-Based Oncology
Malcolm Mason
This is a book about using the best evidence to inform treatment decisions for people with cancer. It is written by oncologists for oncologists, using examples throughout to illustrate key points. The book starts off with a «toolbox» section,...
Nutrition in Institutions
Maria Cross
The importance of good nutrition for individual health and well-being is widely recognized, yet for a significant number of people who rely on institutions for food and nutrition, this importance has not always been a primary consideration....
Nutrition and Arthritis
Margaret Rayman
Arthritis affects millions of people throughout the world and while its treatment is usually medical or surgical, there exists an increasingly large body of evidence concerning the positive effects of nutrition on the condition. There are over...
Nutrition and Stroke
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Stroke is a common and devasting event, which often results in death or major loss of independence, with immense human and financial costs. In the developed world stroke accounts for around 10 per cent of all deaths and is the most important...
Demography and Nutrition
Susan Scott
This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has...
Clinical Paediatric Dietetics
Vanessa Shaw
This standard work has been comprehensively revised and expanded to meet the needs of the modern practising and student dietitian. In tune with current trends, a greater emphasis has been placed on public health issues such as the treatment of...
Nutrition and Health
Tanya Carr
Continuing accumulation of scientific evidence demonstrates that nutrition is one of the most important determinants of health for the individual, and that specific nutrition habits of various populations can significantly decrease the overall...
Evidence-Based Emergency Care
Jesse Pines M.
This useful handbook provides a concise compilation of the evidence supporting diagnostic testing and clinical decision rules in emergency care. Clinical decision rules are now widely recognised as best practice for the ordering of diagnostic...
Evidence-Based Practice Workbook
Janet Salisbury
The Evidence-based Practice Workbook is an ideal tool for use by GPs, medical specialists and other healthcare professionals to learn the concepts of evidence-based practice (EBP). Practical and interactive, this workbook provides simple methods...
Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring
Les Irwig
Monitoring is a major component of management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and depression. Yet poor monitoring means healthcare costs are rising. This book discusses how monitoring principles adopted in...
Biochemistry of Human Genetics
CIBA Foundation Symposium
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and...
Essentials of Medical Genomics
Harry Ostrer
Six new chapters on vital topics of interest such as multilocus SNP genotyping (SNP chips), RNAi, ChIP-chip, and genomic tiling arrays New edition responds to reviewers' and users' desire for greater coverage—now the most useful handbook on the...
How to Display Data
Stephen Walters J.
Effective data presentation is an essential skill for anybody wishing to display or publish research results, but when done badly, it can convey a misleading or confusing message. This new addition to the popular “How to” series explains how to...
A Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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To date, non-medical researchers, particularly those working in nursing and allied health, have suffered from a general lack of good, strategic advice on how to build their careers. Designed to assist readers in building their careers, A...
Spirituality and Mental Health
Poppy Buchanan-Barker
This text explores spirituality and its relationship to mental health. It emphasizes the need to look inward and listen to the messages which are channelled through our beings, rather than dismiss these experiences as some form of «disorder»....
Tropical Diseases in Travelers
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Covering all the major tropical diseases that present a health risk to travelers, this book is an invaluable resource for all practitioners who encounter the post travel patient. With emphasis on clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment, it is...
Statistical Methods in Healthcare
Fabrizio Ruggeri
In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically. The medical product development process is no longer able to keep pace with increasing technologies,...
Medical Uses of Statistics
John Bailar C.
A new edition of the classic guide to the use of statistics in medicine, featuring examples from articles in the New England Journal of Medicine Medical Uses of Statistics has served as one of the most influential works on the subject for...
Introduction to Meta-Analysis
Michael Borenstein
This book provides a clear and thorough introduction to meta-analysis, the process of synthesizing data from a series of separate studies. Meta-analysis has become a critically important tool in fields as diverse as medicine, pharmacology,...
Robust Methods in Biostatistics
Eva Cantoni
Robust statistics is an extension of classical statistics that specifically takes into account the concept that the underlying models used to describe data are only approximate. Its basic philosophy is to produce statistical procedures which are...
Medical Statistics from Scratch
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This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down-to-earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of...
Drug Treatment in Urology
Roger Kirby
A working guide to the use of drugs in the treatment of urological disease The content is arranged so that the busy urologist can go quickly and easily to the relevant section Coverage of treatment is evidence-based It is the only current book...
Challenges in Prostate Cancer
Winsor Bowsher
Prostate cancer continues to be a major threat to men's health, the second most common cancer in men, in many countries. Therefore it is increasingly important that those faced with difficult clinical questions make the right decisions. Since...
Jones' Clinical Paediatric Surgery
Michael O'Brien
This unique book applies a systematic approach to explain the role of surgery in treating childhood diseases. Throughout the book key subject areas are supported by case vignettes as well as high quality photographs and illustrations. Building...
Textbook of Sports Medicine
Peter Magnusson
The Textbook of Sports Medicine provides comprehensive coverage of both basic science and clinical aspects of sports injury and physical activity. More than one hundred of the World's leading authorities within exercise physiology, clinical...
Evidence-Based Sports Medicine
Domhnall MacAuley
This second edition of the popular book Evidence-based Sports Medicine builds on the features that made the first edition such a valuable text and provides a completely up-to-date tool for sports medicine physicians, family practitioners and...
