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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
by Neil Gopee Jo GallowayNow in its Third Edition, this best-selling textbook continues to support you on your journey from being an emerging registered healthcare professional through to becoming a competent care manager. Action points, case studies and strong practice guidelines enable you to understand how leadership and management theory applies to the care you deliver in a wide range of care settings. Fully updated throughout, the new edition includes: More case studies and examples from a wide range of care settings and countries. New key topics such as dimensions of leadership, NHS Change Model, transition to registered practitioner and revalidation requirements, emotional intelligence and resilience. A companion website with access to further case studies, journal articles and web links. This book is essential for nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year, as well as for newly qualified professionals or those seeking to refresh their skills.
Leadership and Management in Healthcare
by Neil Gopee Jo GallowayNow in its Third Edition, this best-selling textbook continues to support you on your journey from being an emerging registered healthcare professional through to becoming a competent care manager. Action points, case studies and strong practice guidelines enable you to understand how leadership and management theory applies to the care you deliver in a wide range of care settings. Fully updated throughout, the new edition includes: More case studies and examples from a wide range of care settings and countries. New key topics such as dimensions of leadership, NHS Change Model, transition to registered practitioner and revalidation requirements, emotional intelligence and resilience. A companion website with access to further case studies, journal articles and web links. This book is essential for nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year, as well as for newly qualified professionals or those seeking to refresh their skills.
Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Third Edition (ACHE Management)
by Carson DyeInstructor Resources: PowerPoint slides, additional discussion questions, and web links.Today’s healthcare leaders face constant challenge and change. Even as they cope with a rapidly evolving environment, they also must overcome existing obstacles inherent to running multifaceted operations. A solid value system will anchor leaders as they navigate these daily hurdles. This highly regarded book examines leadership through the lens of such values. It provides a comprehensive overview of leadership principles specific to the healthcare environment and explores both personal and team values that drive appropriate and effective behavior. Case studies, exercises, and self-assessment tools facilitate teaching, dialogue, and self-reflection. A valuable resource for seasoned practitioners and their leadership teams, the book is also used extensively in academic courses in leadership. Updates to this edition include: Expanded coverage of academic theories and popular approaches to leadership A new chapter articulating the need to identify and develop new types of leaders in healthcare A new chapter on the extensive work of researchers who have examined the impact of leadership on organizational outcomes Updated and expanded discussion of servant leadership, change makers, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, and groupthink Fresh examples and cases featuring clinical leaders, including both nurses and physicians
Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application (Coursepoint For Bsn Ser.)
by Bessie L. Marquis Carol J. HustonHelp your students develop the skills they’ll need on the job with today’s #1 bestseller. Taking an active learning approach, this Ninth Edition emphasizes the symbiotic elements of leadership and management. All professional nurses today face limited resources and emerging technologies, and this book prepares students through up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of leadership and management concepts, ranging from managing conflict and working collaboratively to organizing patient care and staffing. Benefitting students who often have limited opportunities to observe high-performing middle- and top-level managers in practice, a variety of real-world scenarios are featured throughout and provide opportunities for hands-on learning. New to the Ninth Edition: More than 280 learning exercises (26 NEW to this edition) help students see how concepts can be applied in a wide range of practice situations and health-care settings. The variety of learning modes in the exercises gives students opportunities to apply theory, develop strong critical-thinking skills, and internalize learning. Updated Content Crosswalks—based on the latest AACN, AONE, QSEN, and, new to this edition, ANA standards and competencies—show how content in each chapter draws from or contributes to content identified as essential for baccalaureate and graduate education, for practice as a nurse administrator, and for safety and quality in clinical practice. Updated content on new trends/developments in health care includes the Affordable Care Act, meaningful EHR use, projected nursing shortages, and newer care delivery models focused on ambulatory care and outpatient settings. Expanded coverage of workplace topics includes whistleblowing, liability of supervision of unlicensed workers, bullying, incivility, mobbing, workplace violence, and the authority-power gap. Improved leveling in the test bank allows for better assessment of student progress.
Leadership Roles Management Functions In Nursing: Theory And Application
by Carol Huston Marquis L.Now in its Fifth Edition, this foremost leadership and management text incorporates application with theory and emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making. <P><P>More than 225 case studies and learning exercises promote critical thinking and interactive discussion. This edition includes 46 new case studies in settings such as acute care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and community health. <P><P>The book addresses timely nursing leadership and management issues, such as leadership development, staffing, delegation, ethics and law, organizational, political, and personal power, management and technology, and more. <P><P>Web links and learning exercises appear in each chapter. An Instructor's CD-ROM includes a testbank and PowerPoint slides.
Leading Healthcare IT: Managing to Succeed (HIMSS Book Series)
by Susan T. SnedakerHealthcare IT is a complex and rapidly evolving field. Success in this arena requires the ability to create a vision, set a strategy, foster collaboration, develop a plan and execute flawlessly every day. This book provides a clear, concise roadmap for professionals who currently manage, direct or oversee healthcare IT. Through case studies and examples, the author includes highly relevant topics such as delivering and communicating HIT values, managing information security, and connectivity challenges, as well as organizational strategy, alignment and vision of HIT, risk management, performance management and process improvement using Lean methodologies.
Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey: Driving Culture Change to Increase Value, Second Edition
by Joan Wellman Pat Hagan Howard Jeffries Cara BaileyThis book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access. The book's delivery strategy revolves around personal and organizational stories and case studies told by physician and administrative leaders, all students of the Toyota Production System. This revised edition uniquely blends updated case studies with practical theory to describe how the healthcare value proposition can be changed by reducing waste, variation and complexity in healthcare. New to the book are chapters on clinical standard work and integration of lean and safety.
The Leafly Guide to Cannabis: A Handbook for the Modern Consumer
by The Leafly TeamA savvy connoisseur's guide from the editors of the world's most popular cannabis platform. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} Cannabis is at the very beginning of a craft and educational renaissance. It is emerging from the legislative shadows and a second awakening is occurring: people are proactively seeking information about how to properly consume and enjoy it. And cannabis is a wildly diverse product, even more so than alcohol. Consumers can experience not only different flavor profiles, but also different cerebral and body effects; they can consume using different methods, from vaporization to combustion to topical application; and they can pick and choose between an ever-growing number of different strains and products. THE LEAFLY GUIDE TO CANNABIS provides all the best tips to navigating this growing market in a definitive guide that will enhance every user's enjoyment and high.
Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book
by Gerard A. Berlanga Brock C. HusbyThis book gives healthcare leaders a practical guide to implementing the 4 key components of lean daily management system - 1. LDM boards; 2. Leadership rounds 3. Leader daily disciplines and 4. Lean projects. Although lean is not new to healthcare, effective LDM is just now taking hold with the best lean healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Leaders are realizing that sustaining their lean projects over time has proven to be a challenge without first addressing the organizations management system/model. LDM gives leaders a straightforward approach to do just that as well as improve their ability to spread and deploy lean to other areas of the organization and tie back to strategy.
Learning from Paediatric Patient Journeys: What Children and Their Families Can Tell Us (Pediatric Diagnosis and Management)
by Chloe Macaulay Polly Powell Caroline FertlemanGood healthcare is about more than making a diagnosis and giving the correct medical treatment - the experience of those going through the system is hugely important. As a result, the use of patient stories or “narratives” in learning is gathering significant support and interest. This is a collection of such narratives from children and from the parents of children with a range of long-term or complex conditions. They would be useful for medical students and instructors, but also for anyone working for children with chronic and complex conditions, including nurses and other allied health professionals, as well as psychology students. There are also essays on points arising from a parent and from those involved as a tutor and as a student. A free sample chapter is available via the Downloads / Updates tab on our website.
Lebensqualität im Alter
by Rudolf Likar Günther Bernatzky Georg Pinter Wolfgang Pipam Herbert Janig Anton SadjakDieses Buch setzt sich in einer erweiterten und aktualisierten Neuauflage mit dem Thema des Älterwerdens und den daraus resultierenden Änderungen der Befindlichkeit auseinander. Nach einleitenden Kapiteln über grundlegende Aspekte der Lebensqualität, Lebensstil und Bedürfnisse, demographische Prognosen, biologische Grundlagen des Alterns und über verschiedene im Alter oft auftretende Krankheitssymptome werden moderne Therapieformen häufiger Alterskrankheiten dargestellt. Weitere Kapitel sind der Behandlung der krankheits- und therapiebedingten Beschwerden und Nebenwirkungen und der Vorbeugung altersbedingter Leiden gewidmet. Ausführlich wird eine umfassende Studie zu Schmerz im Alter dargestellt. Ergänzt wurden in der Neuauflage Kapitel zur Verhaltenstherapie, Spiritualität, Gedächtnistraining, Harninkontinenz und Chemotherapie im Alter. Das Buch wendet sich an Ärzte, die ältere Menschen behandeln, Pflegekräfte in der Langzeitbetreuung als auch Betroffene und Angehörige.
Lecture Notes: Dermatology
by Robin Graham-Brown Karen Harman Graham Johnston"A very well written introductory dermatology text with excellent clinical photographs and diagrams. We would highly recommend this for those wishing to grasp the basic concepts in dermatology." British Journal of Dermatology Dermatology Lecture Notes presents an accessible overview of skin structure and function, along with the practical aspects of disease management. Now in its 11th edition, it has been thoroughly updated to focus on recent advances in the knowledge of skin diseases and their treatment. It combines readability with high quality illustrations, and is the ideal guide for new comers to the specialty as well as those more advanced in their studies. Key features include:* An overview of the basics of skin structure and function, as well as practical aspects of disease management* Excellent clinical photographs, diagrams and histological images* Newly expanded and updated sections on benign skin tumours, viruses, emergency dermatology (skin failure in particular) and vascular disorders* Includes a companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/dermatology featuring self-assessment and case studies With beautiful colour artwork throughout, Dermatology Lecture Notes includes a glossary of dermatological terms, and provides an excellent balance between theory and clinical relevance.
Lecture Notes Global Health: Issues, Challenges, and Global Action
by Elizabeth A. Armstrong-MensahGlobal Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area. Global Health is a growing area that reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio-economic, environmental and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities experienced in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analysing critical links between health, disease, and socio-economic development through a multi-disciplinary approach. Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health Lecture Notes is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.
Leerboek intensive-care-verpleegkunde neonatologie
by I.J. Hankes Drielsma G.T.W.J. van den Brink S.G.M. van Driessen E. Te PasHet Leerboek intensive-care-verpleegkunde neonatologie beschrijft de multidisciplinaire behandeling en verpleegkundige zorg van te vroeg of ziek geboren kinderen. Deze kinderen worden behandeld in speciale neonatale centra (intensive care) of op neonatologie-afdelingen (postIC-zorg en/of high care), maar ook op kinderafdelingen (eerste acute opvang en high care). Dit boek is het standaardwerk voor verpleegkundigen die een vervolgopleiding (intensive care) neonatologie volgen, of die anderszins geschoold worden op het gebied van neonatologie. Ook is het een onmisbaar naslagwerk voor andere professionals binnen de gezondheidszorg die zich bezighouden met de zorg voor pasgeborenen en hun familie.Met deze tweede, volledig herziene druk is de inhoud weer geheel up-to-date.Belangrijke kenmerken van dit boek* indeling aan de hand van de orgaansystemen* focus op de pathofysiologie van de perinatale periode * uitgaand van de medische behandeling, het daaruit voorvloeiende methodisch verpleegkundig handelen en de psychosociale ondersteuning van pasgeborenen en hun familie De redactieleden zijn in verschillende hoedanigheden verbonden aan Nederlandse opleidingen specialistische verpleegkunde die zich richten op intensive-care-verpleegkunde neonatologie. De auteurs zijn allen betrokken bij de zorg voor pasgeborenen en hebben een verpleegkundige, medische of paramedische achtergrond.Behandelde onderwerpen:* ontwikkeling van de foetus en pasgeborene en problematiek in de perinatale fase* organisatie van het vakgebied neonatologie* algemene zorgverlening en ondersteuning van de pasgeborene en zijn familie* respiratie* circulatie* zenuwstelsel* milieu interne* endocrien systeem* gastro-intestinaal systeem* lichaamstemperatuur* pijn en pijnbestrijding* farmacologie* veiligheid* reanimatie* ECMO * follow-up
Leerboek interne geneeskunde
by C.D.A. Stehouwer R. P. KoopmansInterne geneeskunde is d#65533; kerndiscipline binnen de curatieve geneeskunde en daarmee ook binnen de medische opleiding. Door de jaren heen is er een onverminderde behoefte aan een Nederlandstalig boek op dit gebied blijven bestaan. Dit boek - begonnen als 'Den Ottolander' - verscheen voor het eerst in 1969 en heeft zich sinds die tijd ontwikkeld tot h#65533;t standaardwerk binnen de Nederlandse interne geneeskunde. Het boek gaat uit van een ziektekundige ori#65533;ntatie. Interne geneeskunde is immers in belangrijke mate gebaseerd op kennis van de pathofysiologie. Het boek besteedt hier dan ook ruime aandacht aan. Ten opzichte van de 14e druk is de 15e volledig geactualiseerd. De koppeling met artikelen uit het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde blijft behouden; ook hier zal zo mogelijk en zo nodig naar recentere casu#65533;stiek verwezen worden. Interne geneeskunde is vooral bedoeld als leerboek voor studenten geneeskunde. Daarnaast is het boek een uitstekend naslagwerk voor huisartsen en andere artsen die gebruikmaken van kennis van de interne geneeskunde in hun praktijk. Meer dan 40 internisten en interne deelspecialisten werken mee aan dit rijk ge#65533;llustreerde standaardwerk voor de interne geneeskunde.
Leerboek specialistische kinderverpleegkunde - Gedragsproblemen en handicaps
by Jan Mulder Adri WestmaasDit is een deel in de reeks 'Leerboeken specialistische kinderverpleegkunde'. Dit boek gaat uitgebreid in op de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van kinderen met gedrags- en ontwikkelingsproblemen en van kinderen met een handicap. Communicatie met deze kinderen en omgaan met hun gedrag staan centraal.Het boek geeft veel adviezen aan kinderverpleegkundigen en andere hulpverleners. Voor een optimale begeleiding en zorg aan kind en ouders, is goed observeren van het kind een essentiële voorwaarde. Het contact met het kind komt uitvoerig aan de orde. Behalve kennis en kunde vergt dit van de verpleegkundige inventiviteit en creativiteit.Dit leerboek is waardevol voor verpleegkundigen en andere hulpverleners die met deze kinderen omgaan, zowel in intra- als extramurale gezondheidszorg. Het biedt theoretische informatie en praktijkvoorbeelden voor het uitdagende werk van de zorg voor deze kinderen.
Leerboek spoedeisende-hulp-verpleegkunde
by P. Machielse M. G. Boel R. A. Lichtveld J.J.L.M. BierensHet Leerboek spoedeisende-hulp-verpleegkunde levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan de kwaliteit van de pati#65533;ntenzorg in de acute keten. In deze druk is rekening gehouden met actuele inzichten en methodieken en is uitgegaan van recente nationale en internationale richtlijnen. Het boek is uitermate geschikt om gebruikt te worden voor opleidingen tot spoedeisende-hulp-verpleegkundige, bijscholingen en nascholingen. Een groot aantal onderwerpen waarmee een verpleegkundige kan worden geconfronteerd komt aan de orde. Het accent ligt op het verpleegkundig beoordelen en handelen om zo vroeg mogelijk stabilisatie van een acuut gezondheidsprobleem tot stand te brengen. De spoedeisende-hulp-verpleegkunde maakt al ruim twintig jaar dynamische tijden mee. Hierdoor ontstond de behoefte aan een eigen leerboek waarvan de eerste druk in 2002 zijn weg vond naar alle opleidingen en afdelingen Spoedeisende Hulp. De tweede druk verscheen in 2007. Een belangrijk nieuw onderdeel van het boek is de onlineleeromgeving StudieCloud. Hier kan het complete boek gemakkelijk worden geraadpleegd. De digitale editie bevat deeplinks naar achtergrondinformatie op internet. Daarnaast is er aanvullend materiaal te vinden, zoals samenvattingen en meerkeuzevragen waarmee de leerstof geoefend kan worden. Studenten en docenten kunnen zelf online aantekeningen maken.
Legalizing Drugs: The key to ending the war (No-Nonsense Guides #3)
by Steve RollesThe question is no longer if we should end the war on drugs but how we do it. This No-Nonsense Guide counts the human and financial cost of fifty years of drug war – and proceeds to outline a better way, looking at where drug law reform is already working, how to overcome the obstacles to reform, and what a post-drug war world might look like.
Leitfaden für Laserschutzbeauftragte: Ausbildung und Praxis
by Claudia Schneeweiss Jürgen Eichler Martin BroseDas vorliegende Buch dient künftigen und bereits praktizierenden Laserschutzbeauftragten als kompaktes Nachschlagewerk und bietet Hilfestellung bei praktischen sowie theoretischen Fragen im Umgang mit Lasern in allen Anwendungsbereichen. Durch konkrete Übungsaufgaben und Testfragen mit Lösungen in jedem Kapitel eignet es sich als begleitendes Lehrbuch für die Aus- und Weiterbildung von Laserschutzbeauftragten bzw. als Ergänzung zu den entsprechenden Kursen.Das Werk basiert dabei auf den Anforderungen der Arbeitsschutzverordnung OStrV und deren, sie konkretisierenden, Technischen Regeln Optische Strahlung (TROS-Laserstrahlung). Gleichzeitig bildet es die Inhalte der Kurse zur Ausbildung von Laserschutzbeauftragten an der Akademie für Lasersicherheit Berlin und der Berufsgenossenschaft BG ETEM ab.
Lentigo Maligna Melanoma
by Kishwer S. Nehal Klaus J. BusamThis book provides a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis and management of melanoma of the lentigo maligna subtype, specifically. Authors from multiple fields provide educational information along with importantly relevant, practical, and insightful details to improve the understanding and management approach to this type of melanoma. The chapters address each aspect of this melanoma ranging from clinical presentation, clinical and pathologic diagnosis, surgical management, nonsurgical options, and followup. There is frequent misunderstanding when diagnosing and managing this type of melanoma due to the clinical, pathologic, and surgical complexities detailed. Educational resources truly dedicated to this topic are lacking presently.
Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS
by Arthur J. AmmannThis first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed remarkable scientific progress in prevention and treatment, although blood banks, drug companies, and bureaucrats were often slow to act. 1996 was a watershed year when scientific and clinical HIV experts called for treating all HIV-infected individuals with potent triple combinations of antiretroviral drugs that had been proven effective. Aggressive implementation of prevention and treatment in the United States led to marked declines in the number of HIV-related deaths, fewer new infections and hospital visits, and fewer than one hundred infants born infected each year.Inexplicably, the World Health Organization recommended withholding treatment for the majority of HIV-infected individuals in poor countries, and clinical researchers embarked on studies to evaluate inferior treatment approaches even while the pandemic continued to claim the lives of millions of women and children. Why did it take an additional twenty years for international health organizations to recommend the treatment and prevention measures that had had such a profound impact on the pandemic in wealthy countries? The surprising answers are likely to be debated by medical historians and ethicists.At last, in 2015, came a universal call for treating all HIV-infected individuals with triple-combination antiretroviral drugs. But this can only be accomplished if the mistakes of the past are rectified. The book ends with recommendations on how the pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic can finally be brought to an end.
Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS
by Arthur J. AmmannThis first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed remarkable scientific progress in prevention and treatment, although blood banks, drug companies, and bureaucrats were often slow to act. 1996 was a watershed year when scientific and clinical HIV experts called for treating all HIV-infected individuals with potent triple combinations of antiretroviral drugs that had been proven effective. Aggressive implementation of prevention and treatment in the United States led to marked declines in the number of HIV-related deaths, fewer new infections and hospital visits, and fewer than one hundred infants born infected each year. Inexplicably, the World Health Organization recommended withholding treatment for the majority of HIV-infected individuals in poor countries, and clinical researchers embarked on studies to evaluate inferior treatment approaches even while the pandemic continued to claim the lives of millions of women and children. Why did it take an additional twenty years for international health organizations to recommend the treatment and prevention measures that had had such a profound impact on the pandemic in wealthy countries? The surprising answers are likely to be debated by medical historians and ethicists. At last, in 2015, came a universal call for treating all HIV-infected individuals with triple-combination antiretroviral drugs. But this can only be accomplished if the mistakes of the past are rectified. The book ends with recommendations on how the pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic can finally be brought to an end.
Letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat
by P.R.G. Brink A. T. Besselaar J.B.A. van Mourik F. C. Öner K. J. Ponsen R.K.J. SimmermacherBij de diagnostiek en behandeling van pati#65533;nten met letsels aan het steun- en bewegingsapparaat kunnen diverse medische disciplines betrokken zijn. Behalve chirurgen, orthopeden en artsassistenten kunnen ook huisartsen, fysiotherapeuten, gipsverbandmeesters en verpleegkundigen met deze pati#65533;nten worden geconfronteerd. In dit boek wordt een groot aantal letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat besproken, zowel van het skelet als van de weke delen. Per letsel wordt informatie aangereikt over: ongevals-mechanisme; klinische presentatie; diagnostiek; classificatie of typeindeling; conservatieve en/of operatieve behandelingsmogelijkheden; eventuele valkuilen bij diagnostiek en therapie; complicaties en moment van contro≤ te verwachten genezingsduur en prognose. In deze nieuwe druk van Letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat is, met een verjongde auteurssamenstelling, de diepgang van diverse hoofdstukken vergroot. Enkele hoofdstukken zijn totaal herschreven, andere op detailniveau aangepast, en osteoporose heeft een prominente plaats in de behandeling van letsels gekregen. Belangrijk in de lay-out zijn een totale vernieuwing van de tekeningen en het toepassen van een steunkleur. Door het hand-zame formaat en de overzichtelijke indeling kan men in dit rijk ge#65533;llustreerde boek zeer snel de gewenste informatie vinden. De auteurs zijn allen, hetzij als chirurg, hetzij als orthopeed, verbonden aan een Nederlands ziekenhuis. Zij hopen met dit boek bij te dragen aan een verdergaande protocollering van de diagnostiek en therapie van traumatische letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat. Aan deze druk is alleen de toevoeging StudieCloud gedaan. De inhoud is ongewijzigd. In StudieCloud vindt u extra oefenopgaven en daarnaast is het gehele boek online te lezen. Kijk voor het boek online met oefenvragen op StudieCloud. >
Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2)
by Hardy J. RideoutThis is the first book to assemble the leading researchers in the field of LRRK2 biology and neurology and provide a snapshot of the current state of knowledge, encompassing all major aspects of its function and dysfunction. The contributors are experts in cell biology and physiology, neurobiology, and medicinal chemistry, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective on the gene and its role in disease. The book covers the identification of LRRK2 as a major contributor to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease, the current state of the field after a decade of research, its putative normal physiological roles, and the various pathways that have been identified in the search for the mechanism(s) of its induction of neurodegeneration.
Leukaemia Diagnosis
by Barbara J. BainFrom the bestselling author, Barbara J. Bain, the new edition of this practical reference on the principles of leukaemia diagnosis and classification has been fully updated, and incorporates the recently revised WHO classification. Leukaemias are a very heterogeneous group of diseases, which differ from each other in aetiology, pathogenesis, prognosis and responsiveness to treatment. Accurate diagnosis and classification are vital for the identification of specific biological entities and underpin scientific advances in this field. The detailed characterization of haematological neoplasms is also essential for the optimal management of individual patients. In this user-friendly guide, Professor Bain illustrates and explains how these many laboratory techniques are used for the diagnosis and classification of leukaemia and related disorders. Leukaemia Diagnosis, Fifth Edition will be highly valuable to trainee haematologists and laboratory scientists in haematology and related disciplines, and will also prove a useful reference source and teaching aid for those who already have expertise in this field. In addition, cytogeneticists and molecular geneticists will find that this book enhances their understanding of the relationship of their disciplines to the diagnosis, classification and monitoring of leukaemia and related disorders. Essential reading for every haematologist and haematopathologist, Leukaemia Diagnosis, Fifth Edition features Over 300 high quality full colour digital images of abnormal cells in leukaemia and lymphoma supplemented by histological, cytogenetic and immunophenotyping images Recent information on cytogenetic and molecular genetic abnormalities in leukaemia Updated information on the characteristic immunophenotypic characteristics of different categories of leukaemia