Hospital medicine / editors, Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wachter, Robert M.

Goldman, Lee.

Hollander, Harry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospital care.

Internal medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1314 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management--and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field-- Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management. Subscribe to Lippincott's Interactive Anesthesia Library and get online access to the fully searchable content of Hospital Medicine and of the most critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology, critical care, and pain management.

Contents:

General issues

Critical care medicine

Medical consultation

Cardiology

Vascular medicine

Pulmonary

Infectious diseases

Hiv disease

Gastroenterology

Hematology - oncology

Renal

Endocrinology

Rheumatology

Neurology and psychology

Toxicology and allergy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4698-7436-9

OCLC:

923525062