Empowering Inpatient Care Professionals: A Guide to Hospital Medicine

This comprehensive resource offers invaluable knowledge and practical guidance for anyone involved in hospital medicine. Covering a wide range of topics, it emphasizes evidence-based approaches and best practices for optimal patient care.

Key Components:

• Defining the Field: Explores the essential role of hospital medicine within the healthcare system and various care delivery models.
• Consultative Expertise: Provides a framework for effective patient history and physical examinations, clinical reasoning, and clear communication between healthcare professionals.
• Seamless Transitions: Addresses transitioning care from hospitals to other settings, including functional assessments, rehabilitation plans, and collaboration with relevant teams.
• Bedside Management: Outlines evidence-based approaches to diagnose and manage common presentations and symptoms, incorporating considerations for specific populations and conditions.
• Informed Diagnostics: Reviews commonly used diagnostic tests and procedures, discussing their indications, interpretations, potential complications, and cost-effectiveness.
• Clinical Compendium: Offers comprehensive overviews of major medical and surgical conditions encountered in hospitals, covering management strategies, potential complications, and evidence-based practices, with dedicated chapters for various systems like cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and infectious diseases.

Key Strengths:

• Breadth and Depth: Covers a diverse range of topics relevant to hospital medicine.
• Evidence-Based Practices: Provides information rooted in current research and best practices.
• Practical Focus: Offers actionable guidance for clinical decision-making and patient management.
• Organized Structure: Features a clear and user-friendly structure with well-defined chapters and sections.