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Effective healthcare delivery requires teams and teamwork in all types of settings. Interprofessional Collaboration and Teams in Public and Community Health examines the use of teams and implications for public and community health to ensure effective services and support coordination, collaboration, and communication during planning, implementation, and evaluation of these services. The guide discusses the development and characteristics of teams, describes team leader and team member roles an...

A significant contribution to professional training, Social Work and Genetics is a guide to social work practice with clients who have genetic problems. Through their rich clinical experiences in genetic counseling, the authors provide a valuable body of knowledge for other professionals who must help individuals and their families cope with the dilemmas occurring as a result of the presence of a possible or real genetic defect or disease. Social work students, practicing social workers, and pro...

Here is the essential conceptual and practical information that health care professionals need to understand the phenomenology and physiology of bulimia--a major eating disorder that is both a cause of and a reflection of blocked emotional development. There has been much in the professional and popular literature in the last decade indicating that severe eating disorders and less extreme manifestations of self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, and binge eating are common among college age women...

Hospital Billing, Second Edition provides current content with a practical approach. The content addresses the real world of the hospital billing department, integrating the computer skills and procedures needed for daily work. The material also addresses the types of critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis skills demanded by today’s employers. The text includes instruction that entry-level hospital billers must understand, including the following: the hospital billing flow; basic coding and...

This book presents a systematic evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), its applications, challenges and solutions in the field of healthcare. The book mainly covers the foundations and various methods of learning in artificial intelligence with its application in healthcare industry. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to data analysis using AI as a tool in the generation, normalization and analysis of healthcare data in association with several evaluation techniques and accuracy...

In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for res...

Hamilton, Electronic Health Records, 3e is the top choice for training students using live and up-to-date SpringCharts EHR software. Electronic Health Records 3e builds transferable medical documentation skills with a variety of exercises that walk students through different facets of using an EHR in the medical office. As students progress through SpringCharts, they learn to gather patient information, schedule appointments, record examination information, process lab tests, select codes, and m...