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Disease management sourcebook / Angela L. Williams, managing editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Health reference series.
- Health reference series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronic diseases--Treatment.
- Chronic diseases.
- Consumer education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 585 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Omnigraphics, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Provides basic consumer health information about managing serious and chronic illness, navigating the healthcare system and finding and evaluating health information, patient rights and responsibilities, assistive technologies, and tips for dealing with legal, financial, and health insurance matters. Includes index, online access, glossary of related terms, and other resources."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Facts about serious and chronic illnesses
- part 2. Working with healthcare providers and the healthcare system
- part 3. Health literacy and making informed health decisions
- part 4. Prescription and over-the-counter medications
- part 5. Managing chronic disease
- part 6. Children and chronic disease
- part 7. Legal, financial, and insurance issues that impact disease management
- part 8. Additional help and information.
- Notes:
- "Basic consumer health information about coping with chronic and serious illnesses, navigating the healthcare system, communicating with healthcare providers, assessing healthcare quality, and making informed healthcare decisions, including facts about second opinions, hospitalization, surgery, and medications along with a section about children with chronic conditions, information about legal, financial, and insurance issues, a glossary of related terms, and directories of additional resources."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781787856899
- 1787856895
- 9780780817777
- 078081777X
- OCLC:
- 1123180513
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