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The first comprehensive, clinically focused guide to help hospitalists and other hospital-based clinicians provide quality palliative care in the inpatient setting.§§Written for practicing clinicians by a team of experts in the field of palliative care and hospital care, Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine: A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach offers:§Comprehensive content over three domains of inpatient palliative care: symptom management, communication and decision making, and practical skills,§Detailed information on assessment and management of symptoms commonly experienced by seriously ill patients,§Advise on the use of specific communication techniques to address sensitive topics such as prognosis, goals of care, code status, advance care planning, and family meetings in a patient- and family-centered manner,§Targeted content for specific scenarios, including palliative care emergencies, care at the end of life, and an overview of post-hospital palliative care options,§Self-care strategies for resilience and clinician wellness which can be used to help maintain an empathic, engaged, workforce and high quality patient care,§A consistent chapter format with highlighted clinical pearls and pitfalls, ensuring the material is easily accessible to the busy hospitalist and associated hospital staff.§§This title will be of use to all hospital clinicians who care for seriously ill patients and their families. Specialist-trained palliative care clinicians will also find this title useful by outlining a framework for the delivery of palliative care by the patient's front-line hospital providers.§§Also available in the in the Hospital-Based Medicine: Current Concepts series:§§Inpatient Anticoagulation§Margaret C. Fang, Editor, 2011§§Hospital Images: A Clinical Atlas§Paul B. Aronowitz, Editor, 2012§§Becoming a Consummate Clinician: What Every Student, House Officer, and Hospital Practitioner Needs to Know§Ary L. Goldberger and Zachary D. Goldberger, Editors, 2012§§Perioperative Medicine: Medical Consultation and Co-Management§Amir K. Jaffer and Paul J. Grant, Editors, 2012§§Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine§James C. Pile, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and Brian J. Harte, Editors, 2013§§Inpatient Cardiovascular Medicine§Brahmajee K. Nallamothu and Timir S. Baman, Editors 2013

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Book category Books in English Medicine Other branches of medicine Palliative medicine

• Full title: Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine - A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach
• Author: Steven Z. Pantilat
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9781118772577
• ISBN: 9781118772577
• ID: 06785548
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Weight: 388 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 156 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2015

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