Modern Hospital Medicine Handbook

Current Clinical Strategies for Acute Illness, Multimorbidity, Hospital Safety, and Team-Based Care

von Andrew J. Stedman, Rachel T. Kingsley, Danielle M. Ashmore

410 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

One patient. Several diagnoses. A changing clinical picture. Multiple professionals making decisions at different moments of the same hospital stay.That is the environment addressed by Modern Hospital Medicine Handbook.The acute problem matters first-but rarely alone. Pneumonia may coexist with heart failure, kidney dysfunction, diabetes, anticoagulation, frailty, or cognitive change. What appears to be a straightforward admission can quickly become a problem of competing priorities, altered treatment thresholds, medication interactions, and changing physiologic risk.Multimorbidity changes the plan. Hospital care requires more than treating each diagnosis separately. The consequences of one intervention may appear in another organ system; a chronic medication may no longer fit an acute situation; and the safest short-term decision may differ from the patient's usual outpatient strategy. This handbook places those interactions within the center of clinical management rather than at the margins.Safety is part of treatment. Preventing medication discrepancies, recognizing deterioration, communicating uncertainty, reducing avoidable complications, and handing responsibility from one clinician or service to another are not administrative extras. They are clinical tasks with direct consequences for the hospitalized patient.And hospital medicine is team medicine. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, consultants, therapists, case managers, patients, and families may all hold information needed for the next decision. Effective inpatient care therefore depends on how clearly problems are framed, responsibilities are shared, recommendations are reconciled, and changes in the plan are communicated.Across its clinical discussions, Modern Hospital Medicine Handbook brings these four realities together: acute disease, interacting chronic illness, patient safety, and coordinated practice. It is intended for physicians, residents, medical trainees, and other healthcare professionals who need a practical framework for managing patients whose hospital course cannot be understood through a single diagnosis alone.The modern hospitalist's task is not simply to manage what brought the patient into the hospital. It is to keep the entire clinical picture coherent while that picture is changing.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174841918
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published