Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Third Edition is an outstanding student resource and guide to the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. This comprehensive text includes the building blocks of informatics through complicated topics such as data mining, bioinformatics, and system development. The content is enhanced through …
Pfenninger and Fowler’s Procedures for Primary Care, 3rd Edition is a comprehensive, “how-to” resource offering step-by-step strategies for nearly every medical procedure that can be performed in an office, hospital, or emergency care facility by primary care clinicians. Designed for everyday practice, the outline format allows speedy reference while the detailed text and clear illustrations guide you through each procedure. …
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition Every chapter updated, and most benefitting from parallel updated by international experts, at both, CDC and WHO, priority has been given to ensuring global relevance. New disease variants have been included and some chapters have been fundamentally reworked. The 20th edition is a timely update to a milestone reference work that …
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater
Analysts, researchers, and regulators have relied on this peer-reviewed publication since 1905, and it remains a trusted source of accurate, proven methodology for analyzing natural waters, water supplies, and wastewaters. The book contains over 400 laboratory methods for the analysis of: Dissolved Solids, Metals, Free and Total Chlorine, Odor, Taste, and Flavor Profile Analysis, Disinfection By-products, Radionuclides, …
HCPCS 2015 Level II Professional Edition (Hcpcs Level II (American Medical Assn))
Every practice relies on accurate medical billing to ensure the proper reimbursements are received. HCPCS 2015 Level II Professional Edition provides you with the latest and most comprehensive guide to help achieve this goal. Organized for quick and accurate coding, HCPCS Level II 2015 Professional Edition codebook includes the most current HCPCS codes and regulations, which are essential …
Designing Clinical Research has been extensively revised and continues to set the standard as a practical guide for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in all forms of clinical, translational, and public health research. It presents advanced epidemiologic concepts in a reader-friendly way, and suggests common sense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and …
The inspiring state-by-state campaign to allow sick Americans access to experimental treatments currently blocked by the government, chronicled by the woman leading the charge.Should you need the government’s permission to try to save your own life? Today, the FDA regulates medications available to Americans. But it takes an average of ten years to bring a new drug to …
The 2016 ICD-10-PCS with our hallmark features and format including the Medicare Code Edits (MCE) for the new ICD-10 MS-DRG reimbursement system. This resource contains the HIPAA-mandated ICD-10-PCS code set, plus the familiar Optum360 coding and reimbursement alerts you have come to rely upon. Set the standard for coding accuracy, the cornerstone of health …
Hardwiring Excellence: Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference
A “textbook with passion”, Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence. In this book, author Quint Studer, CEO of Studer Group, draws on his personal experience as a former hospital executive who led two organizations to the top 1% in patient satisfaction and his …
Jonas and Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 11th Edition
Each of the 16 chapters potentially stand alone in value to the reader, but together they integrate public health and medical care delivery topics effectively… Whatever comes to pass until the release of the next edition, this text will certainly poise future healthcare leaders to steady themselves for the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Zachary Pruitt, PhD, Journal of …