Hospital Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Product Details
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (April, 2000)
ISBN: 0683304828
Book author: Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander
Book Description:
From The New England Journal of Medicine, December 7, 2000
Recent changes in the delivery of health care in the United States include the creation in many hospitals of positions staffed by internists whose entire or principal focus is the treatment of patients admitted to hospital wards. This new function differs from the role of the primary care physician, who is responsible for the treatment of patients in all care settings, ranging from outpatient clinics to inpatient service. Those who fill hospital positions often serve the needs of an academic medical center or a managed-care system, and this new kind of practitioner has been dubbed the hospitalist. The editors of this textbook are among the academicians who first described the emergence of this phenomenon, and as they note in the preface to this book, there is no textbook for this new niche of internal medicine that uses the hospital admission as the unit of analysis. This textbook is an excellent attempt to fill this need and provides much essential information for the hospitalist. It should be equally useful for general internists, family practitioners, and physicians in training.
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Hospital Medicine
Product Details
Book Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (April, 2000)
ISBN: 0683304828
Book author: Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander
Book Description:
From The New England Journal of Medicine, December 7, 2000
Recent changes in the delivery of health care in the United States include the creation in many hospitals of positions staffed by internists whose entire or principal focus is the treatment of patients admitted to hospital wards. This new function differs from the role of the primary care physician, who is responsible for the treatment of patients in all care settings, ranging from outpatient clinics to inpatient service. Those who fill hospital positions often serve the needs of an academic medical center or a managed-care system, and this new kind of practitioner has been dubbed the hospitalist. The editors of this textbook are among the academicians who first described the emergence of this phenomenon, and as they note in the preface to this book, there is no textbook for this new niche of internal medicine that uses the hospital admission as the unit of analysis. This textbook is an excellent attempt to fill this need and provides much essential information for the hospitalist. It should be equally useful for general internists, family practitioners, and physicians in training.
http://www.book4doc.com/52454
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