Healthcare Management Books
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Glossary Of Healthcare Terms For Environmental Services
This handy reference tool is a must have item whether you are new or a veteran in the health care field. Hundreds of terms and definitions organized alphabetically, both general and specific to environmental services, housekeeping, and textile care are included in this updated easy-to –use ...
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Patient Safety: The PROACT Root Cause Analysis Approach
As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for “never events”, it has become imperative that hospitals and doctors develop new ways to prevent these avoidable catastrophes from recurring. Proactive tools such as root cause analysis (RCA), basic failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and opportunity analysis (OA) are useful in preventing error, but in the ...
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
While an ever-present and familiar toxin, carbon monoxide (CO) remains the number one poison in our environment. This silent killer is responsible for over 2,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. The public and healthcare communities need quality information about the many risks presented by carbon monoxide exposure. Edited by a leading expert in the field, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ...
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ASTM Standards on Sterilization of Health Care Products (Basic Version)
Provides guidance on the application of dose measurement during all stages of the sterilization process.This new ASTM online collection gives you instant access to 14 ASTM standards related to ISO 11137 Sterilization of Health Care ProductsRequirements for Validation and Routine Control-Radiation Sterilization. These standards are updated throughout the year giving you the latest ...
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ASTM Standards on Sterilization of Health Care Products (Plus Version)
Provides guidance on the application of dose measurement during all stages of the sterilization process.This new ASTM online collection gives you instant access to 14 ASTM standards related to ISO 11137 Sterilization of Health Care ProductsRequirements for Validation and Routine Control-Radiation Sterilization. These standards are updated throughout the year giving you the latest ...
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Working Postures and Movements: Tools for Evaluation and Engineering
In most industries, musculoskeletal injuries are the most common work-related reason for employee absences. These injuries are often caused by static postures or repetitive movements that have to be maintained for many hours a day, such as intensive use of data entry devices, assembly work, parts inspection, equipment maintenance, manual materials handling, machinery operations, and vehicle ...
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Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg. It is intended for practitioners, as well as for policy-makers and researchers, and thus covers both general ...
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Climate Change and Human Health
Over the ages, human societies have altered local ecosystems and modified regional climates. Today, the human influence has attained a global scale. This reflects the recent rapid increase in population size, energy consumption, intensity of land use, international trade and travel, and other human activities. These global changes have heightened awareness that the long-term good health of ...
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Health Opportunities in Development
This manual presents in detail the principles of problem-based learning for the development of professional capacities to deal with issues of an intersectoral nature. Health is a cross-cutting issue in the development activities of many other public sectors. Both health sector professionals and professionals in the other sectors require to develop skills allowing them to successfully engage in ...
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Safety Meetings for Health Care Workers
• Training your health care staff on the subject of safety has never been easier or more economical. With this comprehensive safety program, you get the materials to run an effective safety meeting on over 40 topics. • We provide everything you need to run a complete safety meeting. • No need to research topics, gather materials, or monitor new regs surrounding safety and health care … ...
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Definitions for Asbestos and Other Health-Related Silicates
STP 834 addresses the need for clarification of terminology used to refer to groups of minerals; namely asbestos, silica, and talc. The specific minerals in each group are defined, along with their impact on human health. This volume includes a comprehensive glossary for health related silicates defining 46 terms. STP 834 serves as a practical handbook for the scientific community, regulatory ...
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Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009
This book offers insights into important trends in the global travel and tourism industry and analyses developments in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behaviour. Climate change and its impact on the travel and tourism industry is as much a focus as for example the impacts of kerosene prices on the aviation industry. An article by the well-known ...
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Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and Biomedicine
This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare organizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organizations are undergoing major transformations to meet the demand for improved access and quality of ...
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Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2008
This book offers insight into important trends in the global travel and tourism industry and analyzes developments in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behaviour. The most recent developments in marketing and sales as well as in travel technology and business travel are of key importance for managing companies involved in travel and tourism. The ...
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Clinical Bioinformatics
With the ever-increasing volume of information in clinical medicine, researchers and health professionals need computer-based storage, processing and dissemination. In "Clinical Bioinformatics", leading experts in the field provide a series of articles focusing on software applications used to translate information into outcomes of clinical relevance. Covering such topics as gene discovery, gene ...
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Applied Microbiology
This book illustrates the major trends in applied microbiology research with immediate or potential applications. The diversity of the chapters allows coverage of a large field of applications, such as food and health sectors, environmental technology, and fine chemical productions. It includes specific research papers and overview papers, and attempts to provide a balanced coverage of ...
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Infectious Disease Informatics
Infectious Diseases Informatics Edited by Vitali Sintchenko The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Preface.- List of contributors.- 1Informatics for Infectious Disease Research and Control.- 2 Bioinformatics of Microbial Sequences.- 3 Mining Databases for Microbial Gene Sequences.- 4 Comparative Genomics of Pathogens.- 5 Systems Microbiology: Gaining Insights in Transcriptional ...
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Medical Informatics
Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and ...
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Bioinformatics in Cancer and Cancer Therapy
Bioinformatics can be loosely defined as the collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers and mathematical algorithms. Although no single person or group started the field wholly on their own, Temple Smith, Ph.D., a professor at Boston University, is generally credited with coining the term. Bioinformatics represents a marriage of ...
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Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007
This book offers insight into important trends in the global travel and tourism industry and analyzes developments in the aviation and hospitality industry, destination management and general travel behavior. The most recent developments in marketing and sales as well as in travel technology and business travel are of key importance for managing companies involved in travel and tourism. The ...
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