Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heart
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Proceedings of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Interventions II
Author: George S. AbelaPublisher: SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Proceedings of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Interventions III
Author: George S. AbelaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Proceedings of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Interventions
Author: Proceedings of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Intervention IV
Author: George S. AbelaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309377722
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Cardiovascular Disability
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030915698X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization
Author: Carl J. PepinePublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780683301250
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
The Third Edition of this highly acclaimed text lives up to the goal of its predecessors--to be the most complete cardiac catheterization text available. Six entirely new chapters cover issues in catheterization laboratory quality management; intracoronary ultrasound; coronary angioscopy; introduction to coronary artery stenting; results using coronary stents, and anticoagulation and antiplatelet regimens during and following coronary interventions. The other chapters are substantially updated and revised, with new information on revised training and maintenance guidelines; revised quality assurance guidelines; and new interventional techniques, Doppler flow wire data; results of the latest relevant clinical trials; complex lesions; vein grafts, lasers, aspiration thrombectomy; graph arteriopathy, and stented grafts for dissection of the descending aorta. Recommended in the Brandon/Hill list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2001
Unequal Treatment
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030908265X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received. In Unequal Treatment, a panel of experts documents this evidence and explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients' and providers' attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. How to intervene? Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The committee highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.