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Project Management for Healthcare (Esi International Project Management Ser.)
by David ShirleyAs a growing number of healthcare organizations implement project management principles to improve cost and service efficiencies, they are in desperate need of resources that illustrate the project management needs of today's healthcare professional. Project Management for Healthcare fills this need. Using easy-to-follow language, it expl
Project Management for Healthcare (Esi International Project Management Ser.)
by David ShirleyProject Management for Healthcare, Third Edition covers the significant changes in both the direction of healthcare and the direction of project management in the post- COVID pandemic area. A new chapter lets the reader reflect on the COVID pandemic in terms of project management. The third edition features changes related to The Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition and emphasizes tailoring, performance domains, and value delivery systems, all from the perspective of the healthcare field.The book details the prevalence of online data and the need for its protection.The book explains how data can be protected during a project’s lifecycle. Another chapter covers how Agile can be applied to projects in healthcare. This new edition also covers green technology and sustainability.Exploring the discipline of project management from a healthcare perspective, the book dissects the project process and covers the management skills required to successfully manage a project. By defining a project to include the tools and techniques required, the book shows how to successfully deliver a project from identifying stakeholders and developing and gaining consensus on requirements to constructing a project plan. It also covers in detail the skills required to successfully manage project stakeholders and team members.Managing healthcare projects using the discipline of project management is a skill that can help healthcare professionals better utilize limited resources, both human and monetary, and ensure the highest possible quality of care to meet or exceed their stakeholders’ expectations. Project Management for Healthcare, Third Edition shows how to use the discipline of project management to achieve those goals successfully.
Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management #10)
by Lory Mitchell WingateToday's leading organizations recognize the importance of research and development (R&D) to maintain and grow market share. If companies want to survive into the future, they must accelerate their R&D-to-market cycles or find themselves behind the competition.Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R
Project Management in Health and Community Services: A contemporary guide to practice
by Judith Dwyer Valerie Thiessen Zhanming LiangThe new edition of this best-selling text presents the tools and techniques for effectively managing every kind of development and change in health and community services, while also balancing the needs of a range of stakeholders. It offers practical, problem-solving strategies based on real-life scenarios.A core competency for health and community service practitioners internationally, project management is a key challenge for both new and existing staff. This practitioner’s guide uses project stories and examples to illustrate the core challenges that practitioners may face, including managing the project life cycle, project planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, handling change and building effective teams. Alongside new interviews with staff working across a range of sectors, this edition includes new content on career development and pathways as well as the growing integration of project methods into general management, and the impact of broader changes like digital innovation and transformation.Written by highly experienced authors, and underpinned by the latest research, this enlightening and practical guide is an essential resource for anyone studying or working in health and community services.
Project Management in Health and Community Services: Getting Good Ideas To Work
by Judith Dwyer Pauline Stanton Valerie ThiessenIn the health and community service industries, projects are increasingly used for the development of new services, and to achieve change in existing services, work practices and delivery models.Until now, project workers in these fields have had to rely on books designed for architects, builders and IT administrators. This is the first textbook to take the principles of project management and place them into a context relevant for people working in health and community services. This book provides a critical guide to both the strategic and operational aspects of using projects and making them work.Covering topics such as the lifecycle of a project, planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, change and effective teams, Project Management for Health and Community Services uses extensive international case studies and examples from the field. Written by authors with years of practical experience, this is a valuable resource for anyone studying or working on health and community services.Project Management for Health and Community Services offers students and professionals practical problem solving strategies and provides a comprehensive guide to managing projects as well as tips on managing a team and the stakeholders.
Project Management in Health and Community Services: Getting good ideas to work
by Judith Dwyer Valerie Thiessen Zhanming LiangProject management is recognised as a core competency across health and community services environments, yet it can be challenging for new project staff and practitioners to balance the needs of stakeholders and ensure the best outcome for everyone involved.This wholly revised edition of Project Management in Health and Community Services presents the tools and techniques for effective practice, offering practical problem-solving strategies for managing projects based on real-life scenarios. The expert authors use case studies and examples from the field to illustrate topics such as the project life cycle, project planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, handling change and building effective teams. This edition also features a new chapter on the importance of incorporating evaluation into project design and implementation, and how evaluation can impact on future project design and development.Written by highly experienced authors and underpinned by the latest research, this is an essential resource for anyone studying or working in health and community services.
Project Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation: A Guide for Nurses and Interprofessional Teams
by James L. Harris Linda A. Roussel Patricia L. Thomas Catherine DearmanProject Planning and Management: A Guide for Nurses and Interprofessional Teams, Fourth Edition serves as a primary resource for students developing and implementing clinical projects as a requirement for course completion. Additionally, the text also serves as a guide for faculty and preceptors who assist students in identifying clinical and management gaps as well as in initiating projects.
Project UnLonely: Navigate Loneliness and Reconnect with Others
by Jeremy NobelDr Jeremy Nobel offers practical solutions to the growing crisis of loneliness.Chronic loneliness is a private experience of profound anguish. It has also become a public health crisis. The Unlonely Project will not just sound an alarm about the significant, growing negative impact of loneliness on nearly every sector of society, but also offer solace, hope and solutions.While we can't cure loneliness the way we can cure strep throat or even cancer, there are concrete, actionable and effective things we can do to manage it and keep it from becoming chronic. For an individual lonely listener, or for anyone who loves, serves, treats, or employs people vulnerable to loneliness in community, work or educational settings, this audiobook will clarify how meaningful reconnection between the self and others begins, and how it can be nourished and sustained.(P)2023 Penguin Audio
Project UnLonely: Navigate Loneliness and Reconnect with Others
by Jeremy NobelEven before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. While we can't cure loneliness the way we can cure strep throat or even cancer, there are concrete, actionable and effective things we can do to manage it and keep it from becoming chronic. For an individual lonely reader, or for anyone who loves, serves, treats, or employs people vulnerable to loneliness in community, work or educational settings, this book will clarify how meaningful reconnection between the self and others begins, and how it can be nourished and sustained.Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Dr. Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experiences of loneliness to discover its roots and to show how we can take steps to find comfort and connection. Dr. Nobel brings together many voices, from pioneering researchers, to leaders in business, education, the arts, and healthcare, to lonely people of every age, background, and circumstance. He discovers that the pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical, and that, at its core, a true sense of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful reconnection can be nourished and sustained. And he reveals that an important component of the healing process is engaging in creativity, a powerful opportunity he shows us can be accessed by all. Project UnLonely will not just sound an alarm about the significant, growing negative impact of loneliness on nearly every sector of society, but also offer solace, hope and solutions. Supportive and clear-eyed, this is the book we will take into our new normal and rely on for years to come.
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
by Karl DeisserothA groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories&“Poetic, mind-stretching, and through it all, deeply human.&”—Daniel Levitin, New York Times bestselling author of The Organized MindKarl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain&’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain&’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings—how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.Through cutting-edge research and gripping case studies from Deisseroth&’s own patients, Projections tells a larger story about the material origins of human emotion, bridging the gap between the ancient circuits of our brain and the poignant moments of suffering in our daily lives. The stories of Deisseroth&’s patients are rich with humanity and shine an unprecedented light on the self—and the ways in which it can break down. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain&’s most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by depression and dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel not only joy but also its absence; and a lonely Uighur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance—and challenges—of deep social bonds.Illuminating, literary, and essential, Projections is a revelatory, immensely powerful work. It transforms our understanding not only of the brain but of ourselves as social beings—giving vivid illustrations through science and resonant human stories of our yearning for connection and meaning.
Projekt-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten: Von der Themenfindung bis zur Fertigstellung (Studium Pflege, Therapie, Gesundheit)
by Jörg KlewerMit Erfolg zum Abschluss! Dieses Buch bietet Studierenden von pflege-, therapie- und gesundheitsbezogenen Studiengängen konstruktive Anregungen zu möglichen Themen und konkrete Anleitung bei der Erstellung von Projekt-, Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten. Viele erprobte praktische Beispiele veranschaulichen, welche Ansätze und Aufgabenstellungen denkbar sind – auch in berufsbegleitenden Studiengängen. Lernen Sie ein geeignetes Thema zu finden, eine präzise Fragestellung zu formulieren und alle relevanten Informationen zu recherchieren. Außerdem erklärt der Autor die sinnvolle Gliederung von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und gibt wertvolle Tipps für den Schreibprozess sowie den Übergang vom Studium in die Arbeitswelt. Die übersichtliche Struktur ermöglicht Ihnen einen schnellen Zugang zu den wichtigen Informationen. Die zweite Auflage ist komplett aktualisiert und überarbeitet.
Projektierung und Auslegung von Schüttgutanlagen: Darstellung anhand von Praxisbeispielen
by Peter HilgrafDieses Fachbuch befasst sich mit der verfahrenstechnischen Projektierung und Auslegung von Schüttgut handhabenden Anlagen.
Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds
by Ajit Varma Harald Claus Helmut KönigMicrobial cell wall structures play a significant role in maintaining cells' shape, as protecting layers against harmful agents, in cell adhesion and in positive and negative biological activities with host cells. All prokaryotes, whether they are bacteria or archaea, rely on their surface polymers for these multiple functions. Their surfaces serve as the indispensable primary interfaces between the cell and its surroundings, often mediating or catalyzing important interactions. Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds summarizes the current state of knowledge on the prokaryotic cell wall. Topics concerning bacterial and archaeal polymeric cell wall structures, biological activities, growth and inhibition, cell wall interactions and the applications of cell wall components, especially in the field of nanobiotechnology, are presented.
Prokaryotic Toxin-Antitoxins
by Kenn GerdesProkaryotic Toxins - Antitoxins gives the first overview of an exciting and rapidly expanding research field. Toxin - antitoxin (TA) genes were discovered on plasmids 30 years ago. Since then it has become evident that TA genes are highly abundant in bacterial and archaeal chromosomes. TA genes code for an antitoxin that combine with and neutralize a cognate toxin. When activated, the toxins inhibit protein synthesis and cell growth and thereby induce dormancy and multidrug tolerance (persistence). Remarkably, in some species, the TA gene families have undergone dramatic expansions. For example, the highly persistent major human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis has »100 TA loci. The large expansion of TA genes by some organisms is a biological mystery. However, recent observations indicate that TA genes contribute cumulatively to the persistence of bacteria. This medically important phenomenon may thus for the first time become experimentally tractable at the molecular level.
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease
by Stuart K. Calderwood A. Graham Pockley M. Gabriella SantoroProkaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease provides the most current review of the literature relating to the role and influence of heat shock (stress) proteins on the establishment, progression and resolution of infectious disease. Written by leaders in the field of heat shock proteins (HSP) and their biological and immunological properties, the contributors provide a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between, and the involvement of prokaryotic and eukaryotic HSP in disease states. It has been known for some considerable time that heat shock proteins from prokaryotic organisms are immunodominant molecules that are intimately involved in the induction of potential protective inflammatory responses, and this aspect of HSP biology is updated herein. In addition to regulating heat shock protein gene expression, the transcription factor HSF1 also appears to play an important role in regulating immune responses to infection. Heat shock proteins are now known to influence infectious disease processes in a number of diverse ways: they are involved in the propagation of prions, the replication and morphogenesis of viruses, and the resistance of parasites to chemotherapy. These proteins also appear to be important mediators of bacteria-host interactions and inflammation, the latter via interactions with cell surface molecules and structures such as Toll-like receptors and lipid rafts. Heat shock proteins can be expressed on the surface of infected cells, and this is likely to provide a target for the innate immune response. Elevated levels of circulating HSP are present in infectious diseases and these proteins might therefore regulate inflammatory responses to pathogenic challenge on a systemic basis. Heat shock proteins are also implicated in the impact of genital tract infections on the reproductive outcome, as well as in the local and systemic consequences of periodontal disease. Fever-range temperatures can induce the expression of heat shock proteins, and the final chapter in the book examines the influence of fever-range hyperthermia on a variety of cells and the organization of plasma membranes. This book is an essential read for graduates and postgraduates in Biology, pro- and eukaryotic Biochemistry, Immunology, Microbiology, Inflammatory and Infectious Disease, and Pathology.
Proktologie in Praxis und Notaufnahme: Für Ärzte Aller Fachrichtungen
by Christian Gingert Cornelia Frei-Lanter Michel AdaminaWenn Patienten in der Praxis oder der Notaufnahme über Beschwerden im Analbereich klagen, können Ärzte aller Fachgebiete mit Hilfe dieses Buches die Befunde gezielt einordnen und die richtigen Weichen stellen. Diagnostische Schritte und Therapieempfehlungen sind übersichtlich in Stichwortform zusammengefasst; für die typischen Befunde helfen eindrucksvolle Fotografien bei der Zuordnung zu einer Verdachtsdiagnose. Je nach Befund kann der Leser dann selbst eine konservative Therapie einleiten oder den Patienten zum Proktologen überweisen.Zahlreiche praktische Tipps erleichtern die Betreuung der Patienten. Nachkontrollen und Nachbehandlung sind systematisch berücksichtigt. Auch die wichtigsten Scores und Wirkstofftabellen werden wiedergegeben.Kompakt, übersichtlich und praxisnah – der ideale Begleiter für alle Ärzte, die nicht täglich Patienten mit proktologischen Erkrankungen behandeln.
Prolactin Disorders: From Basic Science to Clinical Management (Contemporary Endocrinology)
by Nicholas A. Tritos Anne KlibanskiThis unique book will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians and researchers interested in prolactin physiology and pathophysiology and those who are involved in the care of patients with related disorders, including hyperprolactinemia and prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas. Timely and up-to-date, it opens with a review of the historical aspects of prolactin research and a discussion of pituitary anatomy and physiology. Several chapters examine basic and translational aspects of prolactin physiology, focusing on recent developments and future directions. The main portion of the book is comprised of chapters presenting the clinical aspects of prolactin excess or deficiency, with particular emphasis placed on prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas and co-secreting tumors. Concluding chapters address prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas in special populations – women in the preconception period or during pregnancy, children and adolescents, and men – as well as plurihormonal and aggressive adenomas and carcinomas.Written and edited by experts in the field, Prolactin Disorders will be a ready reference for a diverse array of professionals, from basic scientists to clinical investigators and clinicians from several specialties, including specialists in endocrinology, neurosurgery, radiation oncology and neuro-oncology.
Prolactin Lesions In Breast Uterus & Prostate: Sense, Sentimentality And The Soldier-horse Relationship In The Great War (Routledge Revivals #83)
by Hiroshi NagasawaFirst Published in 1989, this book offers a full, comprehensive guide into prolactin function and the treatment of lesions. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for Students of Medicine, and other practitioners in their respective fields.
Proliposomes: A Manufacturing Technology of Liposomes for Pulmonary Drug Delivery (Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering)
by Waqar Ahmed Abdelbary Elhissi Dana Elkhalifa Iftikhar KhanProliposome technologies are stable phospholipid formulations that provide an approach to generating liposomes upon addition of aqueous phase prior to administration. In this monograph, the authors review the potential of proliposomes for pulmonary delivery of liposomes via nebulization using air-jet, ultrasonic and vibrating-mesh nebulizers. They explore both proliposome types, particulate-based and solvent-based. The book concludes that both types are capable of exploiting the energy of nebulization to generate liposomes within nebulizers.
Prolonged and Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children
by Robert J. Graham Atsushi Kawaguchi Marti Pons OdenaThis book comprehensively reviews the concept, epidemiology, management strategy, possible therapy and future considerations of children requiring continuous ventilatory support. The chapters discuss both invasive and non-invasive therapy, and the transition from hospital to home ventilation, complications, management of tracheostomy and much more. The book offers insight into ways of reducing the number of children requiring mechanical ventilation and how to manage the complicated situation when it happens. As science advances, the population growth, lower mortality, and increasing complexity of diseases have boosted up the number of patients requiring prolonged breathing assistance with mechanical ventilators. However, there is a few cases in one center with children requiring such intensive care medicine, and so there is no agreed-upon management strategy. This book brings together information and experiences from around the world aiming to improve the quality of medical care and to create a foundation for a clear and effective guide to healthcare professionals. Prolonged and Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children is edited by pioneering scientists and chapters are contributed by international experts. It is thought-provoking for pediatricians, general practitioners, family physicians, nurses and medical staff in pediatrics, pediatric pulmonologists, intensivists and many more associated with hospital and home ventilated cases.
Prominin-1 (CD133): New Insights on Stem & Cancer Stem Cell Biology
by Denis CorbeilProminin-1 or otherwise known as CD133 is a glycoprotein that is present in humans and mice. Since the first description of prominin in 1997, in mouse neuroepithelial cells and in human hematopoietic stem cells as AC133 antigen, this molecule has aroused a large interest especially, as a stem cell marker, that gave rise to an ever growing body of publications and more recently its expression in cancer stem cells. Controversies as to its role as a cancer stem and its detection in different models, as well as its use as a prognostic marker have emerged. Yet, beyond its use as a stem cell and cancer stem cell marker, prominin-1/CD133 displays unique biological features and appears of importance in other processes like for example in retinal biogenesis. Indeed, this five-transmembrane plasma membrane glycoprotein, which marks membrane protrusions is associated with several essential processes like cell polarity, asymmetric cell division and membrane remodeling. We propose to review current knowledge about this intriguing molecule and present pertinent information to determine the biological role of prominins and assess their importance in medicine and cancer research. The primary audience for this book is geared towards scientists and researchers with interest in cancer stem cells, stem cells, cell biology, neurobiology, and regenerative medicine.
Promiscuous Unbound: A Novel
by Bex BrianAn injured American woman traces her relationships with men and her broken body as she convalesces in a Paris hospital in this witty debut.Vivienne Yellow is an American woman who lies in traction in a Parisian hospital, her leg shattered after she was hit by a truck. Through hazy wormholes of memory, colored by her own morphine-stoked sexual longings, we are drawn into her past: Exactly what happened to her as she tried to cross rue de Cherche Midi, her wildly adulterous marriage to an emotionally distant man, and her relationship with her father, the famously charismatic naturalist Maurice Yellow.Bound to her bed and trapped by her own thoughts, Vivienne’s only link to the outside world is a fellow patient, Sonia, an acid-tongued French teenager with a failing heart. Over the course of her musings, Vivienne comes to understand one thing: sex is her refuge, a notion oddly reaffirmed by the stories Sonia begins to bring her about a new patient, an innocent refugee from the Kosovo crisis who had tried to save herself by marrying the first man she met.Ribald and funny, with a rich Dorothy Parker bitterness, Promiscuous Unbound traces the relationship between memory and love and loss and reveals each woman’s unorthodox search for salvation.Praise for Promiscuous Unbound“A hospital stay and morphine drip after a horrendous accident make for an arresting, erotic reverie in this Canadian author’s first. . . . Relentless in its intimacy, feverish and yet clinical in its examination of love and lust: a gorgeous solitary romance.” —Kirkus Reviews“A sharply observed novel of family and relationships. . . . Every scene resonates with importance.” —Quill & Quire
Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
by Nancy G. BrinkerSuzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. It wasn't supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister--the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the little sister--the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life together--one in which they'd grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren. Suzy's diagnosis shattered that dream. In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words "breast" and "cancer" together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That's when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises that Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she promised because this was her beloved sister. I promise, Suzy. Even if it takes the rest of my life. Suzy's death--both shocking and senseless--created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her mission by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose dynamic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancy's model for running her foundation. Her account of how she and Norman met, fell in love, and managed to achieve the elusive "true marriage of equals" is one of the great grown-up love stories among recent memoirs. Nancy's mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink ribbon into a symbol of hope everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take part in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the more than $1. 5 billion spent by SGK for cutting-edge research and community programs, a breast cancer diagnosis today is no longer a death sentence. In fact, in the time since Suzy's death, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent. Promise Me is a deeply moving story of family and sisterhood, the dramatic "30,000-foot view" of the democratization of a disease, and a soaring affirmative to the question: Can one person truly make a difference?
Promising Antimicrobials from Natural Products
by Mahendra Rai Ivan KosalecGiven novel infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and antibiotic resistance new antimicrobial discovery is an important research area. Considering that nature is a vast source of bioactive molecules with antimicrobial activity, the main aim of this book is to present a comprehensive outlook of current research in the field of natural antimicrobials. It discusses the antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants, beehives, and mushrooms with a global coverage of antimicrobial agents from rich forests of Brazil (Amazon), North-Eastern forests of Peru, Argentina, Colombia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Middle East, Turkey, Croatia, Greece, Germany and Russia.The book covers the results of the in vitro screening of antimicrobial activities of extracts and isolated compounds from natural origins. It is divided into three sections: i) Section I, includes natural antimicrobials from plants; ii) Section II incorporates antimicrobial agents/secondary metabolites from plants, and (iii) Section III focuses on antimicrobials from mushrooms, beehive and delivery systems for different types of antimicrobials.Promising Antimicrobials From Natural Products is immensely useful for post graduate students, researchers in plant science, microbiology, biotechnology, pharmacology, pharma companies and those who are interested in herbal, eco-friendly, cost-effective and sustainable antimicrobials
Promising Care
by Donald M. BerwickPromising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M. Berwick, an internationally acclaimed champion of health care improvement throughout the course of his long and storied career as a physician, health care educator and policy expert, leader of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These landmark speeches (including all of Berwick's speeches delivered at IHI's annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care from 2003 to 2012) clearly show why our medical systems don't reliably contribute to our overall health. As a remedy he offers a vision for making our systems better - safer, more effective, more efficient, and more humane.Each of Berwick's compelling speeches is preceded by a brief commentary by a prominent figure in health care, policy, or politics who has a unique connection to that particular speech. Contributors include such notables as Tom Daschle, Paul Batalden, and Lord Nigel Crisp. Their commentaries reflect on how it felt to hear the speech in the context in which it was delivered, and assess its relevance in today's health care environment. The introduction is by Maureen Bisognano, CEO of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and author of Pursuing the Triple Aim.Praise for previous books by Don BerwickCuring Health Care:"The book is an easy and affirming read for anyone who is familiar with and has used the TQM teachings of Dr. Joseph M. Juran and Dr. W. Edwards Deming and would be a simple and informative introduction to the concepts for anyone who has been hearing about TQM but has no idea what it is all about and wants to know more." --Permanent Fixes (blog)"Donald Berwick is the most clearly heard evangelist of applying industrial methods of continuous quality improvement in health care."--Annals of Internal MedicineEscape Fire:"With an effective blend of common sense, real-life stories, persuasive metaphors, and out-of-the-box thinking, Dr. Berwick's presentations make for fascinating reading for anyone interested in improving America's $1.7 trillion health care system."--Piper Report"Anyone interested in change in the healthcare system would enjoy this book. In degree programs, the various speeches would be useful for discussion in a health policy readings course."--The Annals of Pharmacotherapy