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An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care

Title
  1. An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care / Eugenia L. Siegler, Saeid Mirafzali, Janice B. Foust, editors.
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  1. New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2003.

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Additional authors
  1. Siegler, Eugenia L.
  2. Mirafzali, Saeid
  3. Foust, Janice B.
Description
  1. xv, 351 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Hospitals
  2. Risk Management
  3. Ethics, Institutional
  4. Patient Care
  5. Hospitals > Administration
  6. Personnel, Hospital
  7. Hospital patients > Services for
  8. Hospital Administration
  9. Inpatients
  10. Hospital care
  11. Quality Assurance, Health Care
Contents
  1. Foreword / Steven Velick -- 1. Hospitals: From Stand-Alone to Networks and Systems / Havva Idriss -- 2. Paying for Hospital Care / Kyle L. Grazier -- 3. Working in Teams / Eugenia L. Siegler -- 4. Nurses and Nursing Care / Christine T. Kovner -- 5. Training Physicians in the Hospital / Mark S. Pecker and Eugenia L. Siegler -- 6. Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners / Freddi I. Segal-Gidan -- 7. Medical Informatics / David A. Campbell and Peter D. Stetson -- 8. Hospitalization Can Be Dangerous / Barrie G. Raik -- 9. Preventing Functional Decline / Sandy B. Ganz -- 10. Choosing Alternatives to Restraints / Elizabeth Capezuti and Sharon Stahl Wexler -- 11. Deciding About Diets / Bruce Kinosian, Rebecca Berlin, Charlene Compher and Robert Cato -- 12. Wound Care / Elizabeth A. Ayello and Eugenia L. Siegler -- 13. The Delirious Patient / Lisa Honkanen and Bharathi Raman -- 14. Isolation / Barry Gallison --
  2. 15. Care Management and Case Management / Barbara Doyle, Beryl C. Vallejo, Margaret Horgan and Janice B. Foust -- 16. Hospitalists / Saeid Mirafzali -- 17. Easing the Transition Between Nursing Home and Hospital / Kenneth S. Boockvar and Maria Camargo -- 18. Discharge Planning / Janice B. Foust and Margaret Dimond -- 19. Maintaining the Patient's Health in the Community / Veronica LoFaso -- 20. Families: Roles, Needs, and Expectations / Sona Euster -- 21. Providing Culturally Competent Care / Alexander R. Green, Joseph R. Betancourt and J. Emilio Carrillo -- 22. Ethics Committees and Case Consultation / Shantanu K. Agrawal and Joseph J. Fins -- 23. The Patient as Research Participant / Alice Herb -- 24. End-of-Life Care Planning / Jessica B. Scholder, Abraham A. Brody and Melissa M. Bottrell -- 25. Preventing Errors / Molla Sloane Donaldson -- 26. Risk Management / Brian K. Regan --
  3. 27. The Role of Outcomes Research / Mark A. Callahan, Nathaniel Hupert and David S. Battleman -- 28. Creating Quality Improvement Projects / Robert J. Rosati.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.