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Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? (Biopolitics #7)
by Barbara PrainsackInside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates the recent movement for patients’ involvement in how they are treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive, well-informed participants in their own healthcare.While it is often the case that participatory practices in medicine are celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively, are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and computable information is already changing the personalization movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology, Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by them.
Personalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls
by Gloria GronowiczPersonalized Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls broadly explores the tailoring of medical treatment to a patient‘s characteristics, needs, and preferences during all stages of care, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.The book‘s goal is to explain the science behind personalized medicine, what impact it may have on specific disea
Personalized Nutrition as Medical Therapy for High-Risk Diseases
by Nilanjana MaulikPersonalized nutrition involves the formulation of individualized nutritional recommendations to promote and maintain health based on an individual's genetic makeup and other unique intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Implementing personalized nutrition plans for individuals with certain diseases or who are in danger of developing health conditions could help control the onset and severity of symptoms. Personalized Nutrition as Medical Therapy for High-Risk Diseases offers a practical guide for physicians seeking to provide tailored dietary recommendations to their patients with disease treatment, modulation and prevention in mind. The book focuses on the biological mechanisms of specific diseases and provides evidence for how personalized nutrition positively impacts them. It explores conditions including cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, hypercholesteromia, diabetes, obesity, Crohn's disease, as well as multiple pediatric, renal and psychological disorders. Features: · Includes case studies that document how people respond differently towards food depending on their genetic structure and other factors. · Discusses genome wide association studies (GWIMS) to understand the interplay between genetic susceptibility and dietary interactions. · Provides users information to effectively implement personalized nutrition into practice. · Identifies possible challenges to the implementation of personalized nutritional interventions in a clinical setting. This book is for medical practitioners and will also appeal to researchers and students.
Personalized Nutrition: Principles and Applications
by Frans Kok Laura Bouwman Frank DesiereFrom one person to the next, optimal health is governed by a huge array of minor genetic differences. When modulated by a variety of food bioiactives, these differences result in changes in gene expression and subsequent phenotypic expression. Combining biomedical and social science with contributions from leaders in both fields, Personalized Nutri
Personalized Oral Health Care
by Peter J. PolveriniThis book provides an overview of the oral health care environment as the transition is made to a system increasingly focusing on disease prevention, early intervention to minimize disease progression, and a personalized approach that meets each individual's needs. Descriptions are provided of an array of technologies based on rapid advances in genomic medicine and omics technology that are already entering clinical practice and promise to have a huge impact on risk assessment, diagnosis, and therapy. Detailed consideration is also paid to personalized health insurance in the new environment, the impact of personalized health care on the economics of health care, and the consequences for the global diagnostic market place and improved access to care. The changes in dental education required to produce dentists better equipped to participate in the new health care environment are examined, and the book concludes by considering key opportunities and challenges.
Personalized Pathway-Activated Systems Imaging in Oncology
by David Yang Tomio Inoue Gang HuangThis comprehensive volume covers radiopharmaceuticals developed for pathway-directed systems in imaging and theranostic applications. We now are at the cutting edge of providing personalized treatment with increased use in oncology of these new radiopharmaceuticals. Trends in high-resolution instrumentation development, quality assurance systems and regulatory compliance for radiopharmaceuticals, clinical evaluation of radiopharmaceuticals, and benefits and pitfalls of the current clinical FDG PET are discussed. Radiopharmaceuticals are used for diagnosis of diseases of the central nervous and cardiovascular systems and for staging, restaging, and treatment planning for cancers. Nuclear biomarkers allow precise measurement of molecular pathways on a whole-body image upon administration of functional radiolabeled agents, and nuclear imaging agents have potential use in patient selection, pharmacokinetic, dosage-finding, and proof-of-concept studies. Nuclear imaging agents and hybrid instrumentation also provide sensitive and specific answers for differential responsiveness in therapeutic outcome. This book serves as a reference for moving the discovery and development of radiopharmaceuticals from the workbench to clinical applications. It thus benefits not only clinicians but also translational research scientists--molecular biologists, chemists, imaging scientists, pharmaceutical developers, physicists, and support staff.
Personalized Psychiatry: Big Data Analytics in Mental Health
by Ives Cavalcante Passos Benson Mwangi Flávio KapczinskiThis book integrates the concepts of big data analytics into mental health practice and research.Mental disorders represent a public health challenge of staggering proportions. According to the most recent Global Burden of Disease study, psychiatric disorders constitute the leading cause of years lost to disability. The high morbidity and mortality related to these conditions are proportional to the potential for overall health gains if mental disorders can be more effectively diagnosed and treated. In order to fill these gaps, analysis in science, industry, and government seeks to use big data for a variety of problems, including clinical outcomes and diagnosis in psychiatry. Multiple mental healthcare providers and research laboratories are increasingly using large data sets to fulfill their mission. Briefly, big data is characterized by high volume, high velocity, variety and veracity of information, and to be useful it must be analyzed, interpreted, and acted upon. As such, focus has to shift to new analytical tools from the field of machine learning that will be critical for anyone practicing medicine, psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the 21st century. Big data analytics is gaining traction in psychiatric research, being used to provide predictive models for both clinical practice and public health systems. As compared with traditional statistical methods that provide primarily average group-level results, big data analytics allows predictions and stratification of clinical outcomes at an individual subject level.Personalized Psychiatry – Big Data Analytics in Mental Health provides a unique opportunity to showcase innovative solutions tackling complex problems in mental health using big data and machine learning. It represents an interesting platform to work with key opinion leaders to document current achievements, introduce new concepts as well as project the future role of big data and machine learning in mental health.
Personalized Specialty Care: Value-Based Healthcare Frontrunners from the Netherlands
by Nico Van Weert Jan HazelzetThis book highlights the work of pioneers in this field, in order to inspire their peers, healthcare leaders and an interested audience. Prior to the respective care practices, the authors describe the core of personalized care and illustrate its connections to value-driven care and evidence-based medicine. The last part of the book addresses organizational and other conditions under which personalized care can thrive.In the Netherlands, substantial work is being done on value-driven care and more is currently being discussed. This book focuses on the benefits of value-driven care for patients and healthcare providers alike. To do so, it explores a range of representative cases and scenarios, such as: Scenario 1: You are able to surgically remove the most difficult tumors and find out one day that you don’t need to do so in all indicated patients. Later you can find out how to recognize when surgery isn’t the best treatment for certain patients. And now your team has a fixed routine to find the optimal choice together with the patient. Scenario 2: You consider yourself to be a patient-centered doctor who is really in touch with their patients – until you ask them to report for themselves on how they are doing. In the "patient-reported outcomes" you see that you have completely missed an important aspect. Later, you can structurally integrate this into your outpatient clinic. Scenario 3: In line with the planning principles of your hospital, you see chronic patients once a year – and of course also 'as needed' – until your data shows you that you see patients too early or too late, but rarely when it would be most helpful. Later you can discover how to offer your consultation exactly on time – based on early signals and often even before the patient calls the clinic. This is what value-driven care is all about: care is of more significance to the patient when it is tailored to his or her unique situation. Recognizing the patient’s needs, preferences and values, and structurally adapting care accordingly – that is the noble profession of value-driven care, which takes us an important step closer to the ideal of personalized care.
Personalized Therapy for Multiple Myeloma
by Saad Z. Usmani Ajay K. NookaThis book provides the clinician with concise, practical guidance on risk stratification and therapeutic decision making in patients with multiple myeloma. In addition, the available clinical trial and research data are summarized into meaningful reviews and evidence-based recommendations for treatment are presented. The coverage encompasses all phases and forms of disease, including high-risk myeloma. Over recent decades, greater understanding of the biology of myeloma has fostered the development of new, more effective drugs, leading to remarkable improvements in survival. To continue this momentum, several recent prospective trials have aimed to identify further potential therapeutic targets or to evaluate various combinations of anti-myeloma agents. The increasing abundance of management options makes the decision making complex in different phases of the disease. This book will offer the clinician valuable assistance in the choice and sequencing of therapies, highlighting the need for a personalized approach that reflects the growing recognition that myeloma is not one uniform disease.
Personalized Treatment Options in Dermatology
by Thomas Bieber Frank NestleThis book is a quick reference guide to the new, more personalized approaches to the management of skin disorders that have emerged as a result of progress in our understanding of the genetic background and pathophysiology of skin diseases and the diversity of mechanisms underlying their clinical heterogeneity. A wide range of personalized and targeted therapies are described, including those for different skin cancers, chronic inflammatory skin diseases, and autoimmune diseases. In addition, readers will find that the book documents how research results in personalized medicine can be effectively transferred to dermatological practice and looks forward to future treatments that might be developed on the basis of recent research findings. The authors are all recognized experts in the field, and the text is presented in a reader-friendly format and well illustrated.
Personalized Treatment of Breast Cancer
by John Benson Masakazu Toi Eric Winer Suzanne KlimbergThisbook deals with the essential factors in the personalization of treatment forprimary breast cancer. These include host issues, lymph node surgery, radiationtherapy, and preoperative systemic treatment requiring specialized knowledge,multidisciplinary care experience, techniques, and research. Locoregionaltreatment in conjunction with systemic treatments is another important factor,with options for local therapy significantly affected by genetic BRCA mutation. Axillary treatment issues have become top priorities in recent primary breastcancer care, and these are highlighted in the book's presentation oftechnological advances in lymph node mapping and diagnosis, axillary clearancein patients with nodal metastasis, and the role of axillary surgery. Attentionis also given to locoregional treatment after preoperative systemic therapy. Becausetherapeutic impact differs depending upon biological characteristics such astumor subtype, local therapy should be based both on tumor biology and on therapeuticresponse in parallel. Associated translational research and mathematicalprediction tools such as nomograms also are introduced. This book provides theessence of primary breast cancer care, particularly its individualization withnovel therapeutic concepts and strategies, and will greatly benefit physiciansand clinical investigators in breast cancer institutions.
Personalized and Precision Integrative Cardiovascular Medicine
by Mark HoustonEncompassing functional cardiology, integrative medicine, and metabolic medicine/cardiology, this unique reference offers an up-to-date, expert approach to heart health wellness and treating the diseased heart and blood vessels. It provides today’s practitioners with insight into various treatment options and alternatives to pharmaceutical care and surgery, incorporating new scientific information on metabolic and integrative cardiovascular medicine from peer-reviewed articles, evidence-based medicine, and human clinical research as a foundation for practical clinical information.
Personalized and Precision Medicine Informatics: A Workflow-Based View (Health Informatics)
by Terrence Adam Constantin AliferisThis book adopts an integrated and workflow-based treatment of the field of personalized and precision medicine (PPM). Outlined within are established, proven and mature workflows as well as emerging and highly-promising opportunities for development. Each workflow is reviewed in terms of its operation and how they are enabled by a multitude of informatics methods and infrastructures. The book goes on to describe which parts are crucial to discovery and which are essential to delivery and how each of these interface and feed into one-another.Personalized and Precision Medicine Informatics provides a comprehensive review of the integrative as well as interpretive nature of the topic and brings together a large body of literature to define the topic and ensure that this is the key reference for the topic. It is an unique contribution that is positioned to be an essential guide for both PPM experts and non-experts, and for both informatics and non-informatics professionals.
Personalized and Precision Nanomedicine for Cancer Treatment
by Mohammad Azhar AzizThis book discusses the role of nanotechnology and nanomaterials in precision and personalized medicine approaches toward cancer diagnosis, treatment, early detection, and efficient drug delivery. It also covers the applications of nanotechnology in tumor chemotherapy through increasing the specificity of anticancer agents, enhancing the killing effect of tumors, and reducing the toxic and side effects. It also discusses the significance of cancer stem cells in the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer and prospects for targeting cancer stem cells for cancer therapies by nanomaterial. Further, a chapter discusses the current status and future perspectives of actively targeted theranostics nanoparticles for tumors and associated challenges. The chapter also reviews the therapeutic role of different species of nanoparticles for enhanced radio sensitization in cancers. The subsequent chapters cover the recent advances in nanotechnology-based chemoprevention strategies for various cancers.Useful aspect of computational tools and methods in Cancer nanomedicine is discussed. This is an ideal book for students, oncologists, and researchers working in allied fields of nanotechnology, cancer, and targeted drug delivery.
Personalized, Evolutionary, and Ecological Dermatology
by Robert A. NormanThis book discusses the exciting potential for dermatology to embrace developments to enhance the profession's valuable pattern recognition, diagnostic, and treatment skills. Personalized medicine (PM) and genomics are easily accessible and enable the customization of healthcare using molecular analysis to influence medical decisions, practices, and therapies for the individual patient. The evolution of the skin, and the manner in which dermatological conditions are described and managed, reveals the need to consider many aspects on a personal level. New research data are based on the use of evolutionary medicine and genomics to highlight how we can become more successful at finding the most efficacious types of antibiotic or therapy and dosage for a particular disease or pathogen and build a competitive edge by prevention and risk management against invasive viruses, bacteria, or wrongly administered drugs. As more is understood about what grows on us and how it all interacts, along with how the introduction of new antibiotics, biologics, and other therapies affect our skin's ecological balance, this book aims to create a heightened sense of the importance and offerings of ecological dermatology.
Personalizing Precision Medicine: A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality
by Kristin Ciriello PothierThe author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide.• Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide• Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America• Discusses a number of diseases areas – cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases• Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more.• Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch
Personalmanagement im Gesundheitswesen: Instrumente wertschätzender Personalführung
by Andreas FrodlOft und gerne werden Bedeutung und Wichtigkeit der Gesundheitsberufe für die Gesellschaft betont. Häufig bleibt jedoch die tatsächlich gezeigte Wertschätzung gegenüber den Erwartungen zurück. Dies trifft nicht nur auf die üblicherweise im Vordergrund stehende, tarifvertragliche Entlohnung zu, sondern vor allen Dingen auch auf den arbeitstäglichen Umgang mit den Beschäftigten in den mehr als 200.000 Großkliniken, Krankenhäusern, MVZ, Arzt-/Zahnarztpraxen oder Pflegeeinrichtungen. Unabhängig von hierarchischen Positionen, aufbauorganisatorischen Zuordnungen oder Anstellungsverhältnissen ist der Tatsache Ausdruck zu verleihen, dass alle Angehörigen von Gesundheitsbetrieben zum Gelingen des Ganzen beitragen. Auch wenn das ärztliche Handeln dabei zwangsläufig im Vordergrund steht, so ist es letztendlich doch eine Teamleistung, die den Gesamterfolg ausmacht. Einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Gelingen leistet ein modernes und wertschätzendes Personalmanagement, das ein breites Instrumentarium anbietet: Personalentwicklung, Mitarbeitermotivation, Personalführung, Konfliktbewältigung, Arbeitsstrukturierung, bis hin zu virtuellen Arbeitsformen. Andreas Frodl erläutert mit Hilfe von zahlreichen Beispielen die verschiedenen Methoden und Verfahren praxisnah und orientiert an den besonderen Bedürfnissen Gesundheitsunternehmen und -betrieben.In der deutlich erweiterten Neuauflage wurden zahlreiche Aktualisierungen und Ergänzungen eingearbeitet, insbesondere sei das Kapitel 5 mit der Gestaltung der Arbeitsbedingungen und -umgebungen in Gesundheitsbetrieben sowie den Digitale Arbeitswelten erwähnt. Ein Grundlagen- und Nachschlagewerk für Mediziner, Ärzte, Pflegeleitungen und Führungskräfte in Gesundheitseinrichtungen.
Personalmanagement in der Arzt- und Zahnarztpraxis von A bis Z: Erfolgserprobte Tools zum Nachschlagen und Anwenden
by Stephan Kock Kirsten KockIn der Ausbildung werden (Zahn-)Medizinerinnen und (Zahn-)Mediziner spärlich mit dem Thema Personalführung bzw. -management konfrontiert. Dieses Wissen fehlt in der täglichen Praxis und im härter werdenden Wettbewerb um die besten Köpfe. Personalmanagement ist heute mehr denn je ein erfolgsrelevanter Faktor für Arzt- und Zahnarztpraxen. In zahlreichen Beratungen und Begleitungen von Praxen wurde deutlich, dass es hieran in vielen Fällen fehlt und wie bedeutsam sich eine Veränderung auswirkt. Die Beratenen verweisen ein ums andere Mal darauf, dass es kein einfach zu nutzendes Nachschlagewerk bzw. Handbuch für ihre spezielle Situation gibt, das kurz und knapp aufklärt und Vorgehensweisen beschreibt, die sich als erfolgreich erwiesen haben. Dieser Erfolg zeigte sich sowohl in verschiedensten Gesprächs- bzw. Führungssituationen als auch bei Verträgen oder anderen Notwendigkeiten. Das Buch dient als Nachschlagewerk für Praxisinhaber¬innen und -inhaber sowie deren Führungskräfte. Es beschreibt - von A bis Z - leicht nachvollziehbar die wichtigsten bzw. am häufigsten gesuchten Begriffe rund um die Personalführung in der Arzt-und Zahnarztpraxis. Es offeriert neben den Suchbegriffen erfolgserprobte Ablaufbeschreibungen, Checklisten und Mustervorlagen.Das Buch bringt Personalmanagementwissen auf den Punkt. Einfach. Effektiv. Erfolgreich. So sparen die Verantwortlichen Zeit. Es informiert, stärkt Führungskräfte und unterstützt die Bindung von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern.Das Buch beschreibt 144 Fachbegriffe auf jeweils einer Seite. Bis zu 50 Graphiken, Mustervorlagen und Ablaufpläne ergänzen das Nachschlagwerk. So entstehen ca. 194 Seiten, die durch ein Interview mit einer Praxisinhaberin und ein Nachwort auf bis zu 220 Seiten aufgerundet werden.Checklisten und Mustervorlagen stehen zum Download auf SpringerLink bereit.
Personhood in the Age of Biolegality: Brave New Law (Biolegalities)
by Marc De Leeuw Sonja Van WichelenThis volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.
Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death (Bioethics)
by John P. LizzaIn this riveting and timely work, John P. Lizza presents the first comprehensive analysis of personhood and humanity in the context of defining death. Rejecting the common assumption that human or personal death is simply a biological phenomenon for biologists or physicians to define, Lizza argues that the definition of death is also a matter for metaphysical reflection, moral choice, and cultural acceptance. Lizza maintains that defining death remains problematic because basic ontological, ethical, and cultural issues have never been adequately addressed. Advances in life-sustaining technology and organ transplantation have led to revision of the legal definition of death. It is generally accepted that death occurs when all functions of the brain have ceased. However, legal and clinical cases involving postmortem pregnancy, individuals in permanent vegetative state, those with anencephaly, and those with severe dementia challenge the neurological criteria. Is "brain death" really death? Should the neurological criteria be expanded to include individuals in permanent vegetative state, with anencephaly, and those with severe dementia? What metaphysical, ethical, and cultural considerations are relevant to answering such questions?Although Lizza accepts a pluralistic approach to the legal definition of death, he proposes a nonreductive, substantive view in which persons are understood as "constituted by" human organisms. This view, he argues, provides the best account of human nature as biological, moral, and cultural and supports a consciousness-related formulation of death. Through an analysis of legal and clinical cases and a discussion of alternative concepts of personhood, Lizza casts greater light on the underlying themes of a complex debate.
Persoonlijke diagnostiek in een nieuwe ggz: Persoonlijke diagnostiek in een nieuwe ggz
by Jim OsDit boek is een pleidooi voor persoonlijke diagnostiek. Zonder standaard vragenlijstjes, met 100 procent aandacht voor de patiënt. Persoonlijke diagnostiek gaat uit van een participerende patiënt die zijn eigen diagnostische data verzamelt en meeneemt naar de professional. Zelfrapportage dus, in het dagelijks leven en met behulp van een slimme app. Zo krijgt de behandelaar zicht op de persoonlijke ervaringsnetwerken van zijn patiënt. Dat is de eerste stap naar herstel, want in die netwerken liggen weerbaarheid én kwetsbaarheid besloten. De DSM-5 voorbij! helpt hulpverleners om de specifieke problematiek van individuele patiënten boven water te krijgen. Met het internationale classificatiesysteem DSM-5 lukt dat vaak niet, door de eenzijdige toetsing op globale criteria. Patiënten met ernstige problematiek blijven daardoor vaak in de kou staan. Binnen de huidige ggz-organisatie komen hulpverleners niet ver met persoonlijke diagnostiek. Met name regelgeving en lopende afspraken met de zorgverzekaars staan in de weg. Daarom stelt dit boek de bijdrage van DSM-5 aan het kapitalistische ‘spel’ tussen farmaceuten, psychiaters, verzekeraars en politici ter discussie. En ontvouwt Van Os tegelijk een blauwdruk voor een nieuw soort ggz.
Persoonlijke hygiëne: Basiszorg: deel 1 (Basiswerken Verpleging en Verzorging)
by Willeke Heres Ineke SteegWerkcahier incl. cd-rom Kruisinfecties en cd-rom Persoonlijke hygiëne
Perspectives from United Kingdom and United States Policy Makers on Obesity Prevention: Workshop Summary
by Institute of Medicine of the National AcademiesBoth the United Kingdom and United States are grappling with nationwide epidemics of obesity. Obesity contributes to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers, among other diseases. Although many people are aware of obesity's causes and consequences, few see it as a problem for their own families--despite clinical evidence to the contrary. Given this disconnect between perception and reality, policy makers in both countries struggle to find a way to reach people to encourage change. The IOM brought together policy makers from the U.K. and U.S. for a workshop on October 22, 2009, to discuss the challenges of and promising approaches to the struggle against obesity. Presenters spoke about current policies, programs, and partnerships that are addressing the obesity epidemic and evidence for effective strategies to change perception and behaviors. The workshop, summarized in this document, provided an opportunity for both countries to learn from each other's efforts and to consider how to apply new strategies at home.
Perspectives in Ambulatory Care Nursing
by Beth Ann Swan Caroline Coburn Deena GillandThe perfect ambulatory care primer for undergraduate nursing students or practicing nurses transitioning from acute care settings, Perspectives in Ambulatory Care delivers expert insight into this evolving specialty and familiarizes readers with the top issues and trends they’ll encounter in ambulatory nursing practice. This authoritative resource clarifies the distinctions between ambulatory care and acute care, details the wide variety of ambulatory care roles and settings and demonstrates the growing impact and importance of nurses outside the hospital setting to help readers confidently meet the challenges of a changing healthcare landscape and succeed in this critical area of care.
Perspectives in Crystallography
by John R. HelliwellCrystallography is one of the most multidisciplinary sciences, with roots in fields as varied as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, computation and earth and planetary science. The structural knowledge gained from crystallography has been instrumental in acquiring new levels of understanding in numerous scientific areas. P