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This book has been written to meet the need for practical, authoritative and detailed advice for the quality assurance professional who is responsible for monitoring compliance with legal requirements and accepted standards, as embodied in the disciplines of good laboratory practice (GLP). GLP regulations concern the quality and integrity of safety data generated in industrial laboratories, in environmental studies and in the development of new chemical substances. They deal with such matters as...

Classroom tested and the result of over 30 years of teaching and research, this textbook is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and graduate data analysis courses in environmental sciences and engineering. It is also a useful reference on modern digital data analysis for the extensive and growing community of Earth scientists and engineers. Basic Environmental Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers introduces practical concepts of modern digital data analysis and graphics, including numer...

Das Buch beschreibt Theorie und Praxis der Kommunikation im Krankenhausalltag zwischen den verschiedenen Berufsgruppen. Dabei wird sowohl die Verstandigung unter Kollegen, die Arzt-Patientenkommunikation als auch die Darstellung nach aussen hin betrachtet. Zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele erganzen die Ausfuhrungen. Viele Hinweise und nutzliche Tipps fur gelingende Gesprache, die Nutzung technischer Kommunikationsmittel im Krankenhausbetrieb, eine Take-Home-Message am Ende jedes Kapitels sowie viele Sc...

This learning package highlights the concepts and procedures required to prepare and submit accurate health insurance claims. Includes step-by-step instructions for major forms of claims to help students understand the specific needs. Numerous exercises, complete with answers, provide students with immediate feedback to gain the necessary skills to prepare accurate documents.

Innerhalb des Gesundheitswesen spielt der Krankenhausbereich eine zentrale Rolle. Hier hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein tiefgreifender Wandel vollzogen. Im dem Buch zeigen fuhrende Praktiker und Wissenschaftler, wie eine zukunftsorientierte Vorgehensweise in wichtigen Fragen wie IT-Loesungen, Outsourcing-Strategien, horizontale Privatisierungen als Kooperationsform sowie beim Change Management aussehen koennte. Das Buch vermittelt so fur Verwaltung und Mediziner ein breites Know-how uber wicht...

Das Buch behandelt die Robotik aus der Sicht der Kunstlichen Intelligenz (KI) sowohl fur einen einzelnen Roboter als auch fur Roboterverbande (verteilte KI). Dieser Ansatz ist neuartig, da bislang die Roboterbucher diese Disziplin klassisch beschrieben haben (z.B. Transformation zwischen Gelenkwinkeln). Diese erste systematische Darstellung der wissensbasierten Planung und ihrer Bewertung ist mit einer detaillierten Beschreibung zukunftiger Planungseinsatze verbunden. Die neuen Techniken der Exp...

Lean Systems: Applications and Case Studies in Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare details the various Lean techniques and numerous real-world Lean projects drawn from a wide variety of manufacturing, healthcare, and service processes, demonstrating how to apply the Lean philosophy. The book facilitates Lean instruction by supplying interactive

This guide provides all the information that physicians need for successful financial planning. It offers solid, common sense tools tailored to help physicians and their families manage day-to-day financial issues. This interactive guide provides expert advice on financial planning, saving, investing, self-guided portfolio management, obtaining loans and mortgages, buying and selling real estate, retirement, estate planning and many other aspects of money and investment. It contains helpful work...

This transformative textbook, first of its kind to incorporate engineering principles into medical education and practice, will be a useful tool for physicians, medical students, biomedical engineers, biomedical engineering students, and healthcare executives. The central approach of the proposed textbook is to provide principles of engineering as applied to medicine and guide the medical students and physicians in achieving the goal of solving medical problems by engineering principles and meth...

In the current climate of terrorism, the facility manager is in a more critical position than ever before. Protecting the organization's building and its occupants from chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) attacks that are designed to disrupt and/or destroy business operation is becoming an increasingly important priority for facility managers using practice management. Bioterrorism: A Guide for Facility Managers provides a rationale for systematically identifying and evaluating the key...

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health. Despite this, however, a significant degree of health inequality is emerging among different socioeconomic groups. Assessment-of-need procedures and eligibility rules define the target population in 'need-of-care', and represent a compulsory gateway for olderadults in order to receive home-care benefits, either in-kind or in-cash. In this context, the economic relevance of formal long-term care has been growing and the rat...

Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide you with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, you will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Exercises in each chapter provide plenty of practice for learni...

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016). Along with policy changes around the globe, these three books have stimulated experts in this ar...