Author: Bertrand Guidet Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316489922 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This book is one of the first to comprehensively summarise the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving field of quality management in intensive care. Quality indicators and outcome measures are discussed with a practical focus on patient-centred, evidence-based implementation for safer and more effective clinical practice. Chapters on topics such as teambuilding, patient satisfaction, mortality and morbidity, and electronic management systems are organised into three sections, covering quality management at the scale of the individual patient, the intensive care unit, and the national and international level. Written by a team of over forty international experts in the specialty, with editors who have been heavily involved for many years with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the book reflects commonly accepted goals and guidelines for best practice, and will be valuable for practitioners worldwide. The ideal one-stop resource for intensive care physicians as well as ICU and hospital managers.
Author: Michael James Murray Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 9780781729680 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 936
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This authoritative reference published under the auspices of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA) is now in its Second Edition. More than 100 internationally recognized experts present state-of-the-art strategies for successful, cost-effective perioperative care and management of acutely ill patients.This thoroughly revised edition features many distinguished new contributors from anesthesiology, critical care medicine, internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. Timely new chapters cover medical informatics, evidence-based medicine, human genomics, research in critical care medicine, and imaging in the ICU. Chapters on acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and other diseases have been rewritten to reflect recent technological and therapeutic breakthroughs.
Author: William J. Sibbald Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642567193 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 379
Book Description
Measuring the quality of a complex service like critical care that combines the highest technology with the most intimate caring is a challenge. Recently, con sumers, clinicians, and payers have requested more formal assessments and comparisons of the quality and costs of medical care [2). Donabedian [1) pro posed a framework for thinking about the quality of medical care that separates quality into three components: structure, process, and outcome. An instructive analogy for understanding this framework is to imagine a food critic evaluating the quality of a restaurant. The critic might comment on the decoration and lighting ofthe restaurant, how close the tables are to each other, the extent ofthe wine list and where the chef trained. These are all evaluations of the restaurant structure. In addition, the critic might comment on whether the service was courteous and timely - measures of process. Finally, the critic might comment on outcomes like customer satisfaction or food poisoning. Similarly, to a health care critic, structure is the physical and human resources used to deliver medi cal care. Processes are the actual treatments offered to patients. Finally,outcomes are what happens to patients, for example, mortality, quality of life,and satisfac tion with care (Table 1). There is a debate about which of these measurements is the most important measure of quality.
Author: José Besso Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 8847014360 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 573
Book Description
The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSIC- CM) has reached the age of maturity. Physicians, nurses, and many others associated with the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine will be coming from all corners of the world to Florence, Italy in August, 2009 to celebrate the 10th quadrennial congress. Every 4 years for the last 36 years, congresses in the magnificent venues of London (1973), Paris (1977), Washington (1981), Jerusalem (1985), Kyoto (1989), Madrid (1993), Ottawa (1997), Sydney (2001), and Buenos Aires (2005) have sig- fied an ever-developing process which has resulted in the four pillars of the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, namely partnership, ethics, professionalism, and competence. The first pillar is based on a stronger interdisciplinary collaboration and a mul- professional partnership in the field of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. In recent decades, professional activity in medicine has been regulated by well-defined, universal principles, such as the welfare of the patient, autonomy, social justice, and the patient–physician relationship. The second pillar, ethics, has offered welcomed assistance to all these principles in establishing an ethics curriculum.
Author: Kurt Lenz Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3709193206 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 147
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Recent technological innovations - influenced primarily by the development of more sophisticated, faster and cheaper computer systems - permitted also the evolution of more affordable systems for Patient Data Management, so called PDM-Systems. The experience of the authors, on one of the first PDMS installation sites in Europe, shows that the purchase of such a system is not an easy task, since accurate data are not available in a comparable format. Therefore the first part of the book is devoted to a comparison of already installed, commercially distributed bedside based PDMS with regard to their specifications, functions and performance. The methods included a questionnaire with detailed questions for the vendors to answer and a "table of functions” comparing the most important functions which should be included in a PDMS. With that list the different systems (which were all in clinical use) were checked for the availability and the way of use of these functions. To evaluate variations in the systems performance an "information retrieval test” was designed and executed. In the second part the different vendors, whose systems were included in the study, were to describe the systems from their viewpoints. The third part contains papers describing the users’ experiences. The fourth and last part shows how to use PDMS-data for scientific and therapeutic purposes including two papers on clinical expert systems. Thus, this book provides valuable information for clinicians and hospital managers who have to decide on the purchase of a Patient Data Management System.
Author: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Publisher: MWV ISBN: 3941468278 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 414
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The creation of units dedicated to treating critically ill patients is a recent development in our hospitals. In Europe, the first "modern" ICU was established in Copenhagen during the large polio epidemics in 1951-52. Since then, the ICU and intensive care as a field of highly specialised medical competencies have developed side by side. The demand for ICU resources is likely to increase considerably in the coming decades, not least as a consequence of the "age pandemic" that is rapidly changing (population) demographics. This book focuses on the many different aspects around the organisation of modern intensive care. Discussions about the concepts of intensive care, its structure and processes are highlighted in over 50 chapters all written by international experts in intensive care medicine. The book comprises the following sections: Concepts; Structures, Monitoring & Personnel; Processes; Outcomes; Conclusion. All clinical personnel working in the ICU as well as managers of hospitals should read this book. It will hopefully set the modern "ICU standard" and will thus be a tool in planning for the challenges we all will face treating critically ill patients in the future.
Author: Andrew Webb Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 1783269529 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 424
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The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care resources. This book advises on leadership and organizational development of intensive care units, in order to give best practices for governance, performance, emergency response and safety. Written by international experts in the field, each chapter allows researchers, clinicians and service providers worldwide to be able to refer to this single reference book. In seven parts, the volume will tackle aspects of intensive care management in both global and local contexts, and interrogate the key concerns that service providers face. It works as an informative guide for the practical administration of intensive care, as well as being international in its design and information.
Author: Yatin Mehta Publisher: JP Medical Ltd ISBN: 9351529681 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1098
Book Description
Textbook of Critical Care is an extensive two volume guide to all aspects of critical care. The first volume covers systems of the human body in individual sections; the second volume continues to cover other vital topics for those working in an intensive care unit. With over 100 international contributors ensuring authoritative content throughout, and full colour illustrations across 1500 pages, Textbook of Critical Care is a valuable resource for residents, intensivists, and emergency medicine doctors.
Author: Jean-Louis Vincent Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642791549 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1027
Book Description
The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.
Author: A. Gullo Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 8847007739 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 424
Book Description
Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.
Author: Bertrand Guidet
Author: Michael James Murray
Author: William J. Sibbald
Author: José Besso
Author: Kurt Lenz
Author: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Author: Andrew Webb
Author: Yatin Mehta
Author: Jean-Louis Vincent
Author: A. Gullo