Fundamental Principles of Clinical Reasoning & Research
Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine is a resource for all health-care workers involved in applying evidence to the care of their patients. Using clinical examples and citing liberally from the peer-reviewed literature, the book shows how statistical principles can improve medical decisions. This work shows how probability, risk ......
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal ......
Using the statistical analysis program SPSS, this book shows how to analyze patient outcomes data and create graphs summarizing this data. The first part of this book serves as a primer for nurses and other health professionals who are learning how to measure outcomes. The second part includes a series of case studies describing successful ......
Since publication of the initial version of Plagues & Poxes in 1987, which had the optimistic subtitle The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease, the rise of new diseases such as AIDS and the deliberate modification and weaponisation of diseases such as anthrax have changed the way we perceive infectious disease. With major modifications to deal with ......
The Handbook of Mind-Body Medicine for Primary Care emphasizes the concepts and technologies of clinical psychophysiology in providing an evidence-based empirical approach to problems of patients in primary care medicine from a bio-psychosocial perspective. This Handbook introduces conceptual models from the psycho-physiological perspective for ......
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of ......
A practical introduction to the process of clinical supervision. Stephen Power follows the course of the supervision process, emphasizing its purpose and value and suggesting ways to avoid potential pitfalls. A number of theories and models are discussed with reference to each stage of supervision. Each stage is illustrated with a mixture of ......
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal ......
Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal ......
