Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264805907

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Medical Ethics

Medical Ethics
Author: Diane Andrews Henningfeld
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0737751959

As technology makes the world more accessible, it is increasingly important to develop a wide perspective on social issues as well as political, environmental, and health issues of global significance. This book offers readers a global viewpoint about medical ethics, from a variety of international perspectives. Readers will learn about how medical ethics are established, and how they interplay with the end of life. They will evaluate medical ethics and organ transplantation, and the relationship of ethics and medical research. Essay sources include The World Medical Association, UNESCO, Behzad Hassani, Koji Masuda, and Debarati Mukherjee.

The Nature of Their Bodies

The Nature of Their Bodies
Author: Wendy Mitchinson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780802068408

In documenting the changing nature of interventional medicine, Mitchinson considers the medical treatment of women within the context of what was available to physicians at the time.

Osler

Osler
Author: Charles S. Bryan
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195112511

Framing the great physician's message in contemporary, easily accessible terms, he allows today's readers to rediscover the immense appeal and pragmatism of Osler's stimulating writings.

Porth Pathophysiology

Porth Pathophysiology
Author: Charlotte Pooler
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1638
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1605477818

The well respected textbook Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States has now been fully adapted for Canadian undergraduate nursing and health professions students. Like the original text, this Canadian edition includes a review of anatomy and physiology and treatment information for commonly occurring disease states. Pediatric, geriatric, and pregnancy deviations are integrated throughout and highlighted with icons for easy identification. Canadian content includes Canadian healthcare statistics regarding incidence; cultural variations, with a focus on native population and largest immigrant populations; Canadian research and researchers; Canadian treatment protocols and guidelines; and commonly occurring disease concerns based on Canadian statistics.

Journal

Journal
Author: National Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1974
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: