Hospital Medicine (Hospital Medicine (Wachter))

About this book

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition Hospital Medicine offers practical evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management&;and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field&; Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission guidelines for consultation procedures for hospital discharge diagnostic algorithms and critical paths detailing effective outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalists increasing role in providing critical care managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics quality improvement and practice management. Subscribe to Lippincotts Interactive Anesthesia Libraryand get online access to the fully searchable content of Hospital Medicine and of the most critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology critical care and pain management.