Virtual Hospital University of Iowa

Managing Modern Healthcare

This PDF book covers the following topics related to General medicine : Managing Healthcare: Themes and Issues, Contextualizing Healthcare Management, Studying Management in Healthcare, Being a Manager, Becoming a Manager, Managers Knowing, Managers Networking, Managing Healthcare: Tensions and Prospects.

Author(s): Mike Bresnen, et al

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Dengue Fever

This book provides students with an updated reference text on the basics of this disease as well as researchers and academics, with a useful document to understand the current outlook and the perspectives for the future. It intends to review the latest updates on dengue fever, the tools available for its study and control, and promising technologies currently in the pipeline.

Author(s): Jorge Abelardo Falcon-Lezamaand and Betancourt-Cravioto

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Standard Treatment Protocol Medical Officers

This protocol is meant to help medical professionals how to manage clinical decision making and guide them in their daily clinical works utilizing the available resources. It is aimed to be used by the Medical Officers working in the Primary Health Centres with some additional guidelines for its use at the secondary level in the Community Health Centres.

Author(s): Government of Tripura

268 Pages

Food Borne Diseases Lectures

This note covers the following topics: Food borne diseases (FBD) are acute illnesses associated with the recent consumption of food .Classification of food borne diseases, Food borne infections , Salmonellosis, Common food poisoning serotypes, Typhoid and Paratyphoid fever, Disease symptoms, Campylobacteriosis, Mode of infection, Escherichia coli food borne infection, Enteroinvasive E coli, Cholera, Vibrio parahemolyticus foodborne Infection, Listeria monocytogenes infection, Vehicle foods, Viral Foodborne Infections, Toxin production, Botulinal toxins, Role of preservatives in meat, Infant botulism, Fungal intoxications.

Author(s): Prof. Jackson N. Ombui

131 Pages

A System of Practical Medicine

This book explains the following topics: General Pathology And Sanitary Science, General Etiology, Medical Diagnosis, And Prognosis, Drainage And Sewerage In Their Hygienic Relations, General Diseases, Typhoid Fever, Relapsing Fever, Scarlet Fever, Rubeola, Malarial Fevers, Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Rabies And Hydrophobia, Glanders and Farcy, Puerperal Fever.

Author(s): William Pepper and Louis Starr

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Vignettes in Patient Safety Volume 1

The goal of Vignettes in Patient Safety is to illustrate and discuss, in a clinically relevant format, examples in which evidence-based approaches to patient care, using established methodologies to develop highly functional multidisciplinary teams, can help foster an institutional culture of patient safety and high-quality care delivery.

Author(s): Michael S. Firstenberg and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

186 Pages

Introduction to Clinical Pain Problems

This note covers the following topics: Evidence-Based Pain Therapy, Acute Postoperative Pain: Context, Outcomes, and Clinical Interventions, Pharmacotherapy: Opioids, NSAIDS, Adjuvants, and Analgesic Equivalence, Neuropathic Pain, Headache and Craniofacial Pain Disorders, Cancer Pain, Back Pain.

Author(s): Tufts University

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Food borne Diseases

This book covers the following topics: Definition of Food borne diseases, Epidemiology, Classification and Etiology of Some Food Borne Diseases, Pathogenesis and Clinical Features of Common Food-borne Diseases, Diagnosis of Food-borne Diseases, General Management Approaches of Food-borne Diseases, Prevention and Control of Food-borne Diseases, Investigation of Outbreaks of Food-borne Diseases.

Author(s): Negga Baraki, Abera Wodajo, Mussie Abera, M.D, Lemessa Oljira, Habtamu Mitiku, Seyoum Mengistu, M.D, Fekade Ketema

168 Pages