Hospital Medicine Care

Essential Clinical Reasoning, Communication, Coordination, and Management for Modern Inpatient Practice

von Caroline T. Huxley, Ross J. Whitaker, Felicity M. Bradshaw

552 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A hospitalized patient rarely has just one problem-and some of the most consequential failures in inpatient care happen between problems, people, and transitions.HOSPITAL MEDICINE CARE is built around the work of keeping a complex admission coherent from the first assessment to the final handoff. It brings clinical reasoning, communication, coordination, and day-to-day management into the same framework so that diagnosis, treatment, consultation, monitoring, and discharge planning support one another rather than becoming disconnected tasks.The hospital environment changes quickly. New results arrive after rounds. A consultant may alter the working diagnosis. Overnight events can reorder priorities. Medications are started, stopped, held, or restarted. Functional status may change. Discharge may be delayed by instability, unclear follow-up, medication concerns, or practical barriers outside the hospital. Effective inpatient care depends on recognizing those changes and making sure the plan evolves with them.This reference follows the course of hospitalization itself. Readers are guided through defining the admission problem, refining the differential as evidence accumulates, choosing investigations with purpose, managing acute and chronic conditions together, recognizing deterioration, using consultations effectively, and deciding whether the patient is genuinely progressing toward a safe transition out of the hospital.Particular attention is given to the parts of hospital medicine that are easy to underestimate: prioritizing several active problems, clarifying responsibility across teams, reconciling medications, communicating changes in condition, coordinating consultants, preparing handoffs, and beginning discharge planning early enough for it to influence care rather than becoming a final-day exercise.The objective is not to create another collection of disease summaries. It is to help readers connect the decisions made during a hospitalization-because an appropriate admission plan can still fail if follow-up is unclear, a correct diagnosis can be undermined by fragmented communication, and successful treatment can lose its value if the transition out of hospital is unsafe.Designed for hospitalists, internists, residents, medical students on inpatient rotations, advanced practice clinicians, and other professionals involved in adult hospital care, the book can serve as both a structured learning resource and a practical clinical reference when several problems and several teams must be managed at once.Modern hospital medicine is the work of keeping reasoning, treatment, people, and transitions moving in the same direction. Use HOSPITAL MEDICINE CARE to strengthen that connection from admission through daily reassessment, consultation, handoff, and discharge-so each stage of care leaves the next one clearer and safer.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176362923
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published