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  • Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions

    • 4th Edition
    • Tammy Hoffmann + 2 more
    • English
    Making decisions informed by evidence means that healthcare can be provided responsibly, collaboratively, effectively, and sustainably. Evidence-Based Practice Across the Health Professions is designed to guide and support students and clinicians to learn how to make evidence-informed decisions.This book will help you learn how to decide what clinical questions to ask, search for research evidence to answer them, and analyse the evidence to decide if the results are believable, important, and applicable. You will learn how to talk with patients about evidence and make collaborative decisions and how to approach evidence implementation at an individual and organisational level.Written by international and discipline leaders in evidence-based practice across a range of health professions, the fourth edition has been fully updated in line with the latest developments in this field from around the world.

  • Game-Based Learning in Education and Health Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 279
    • English
    Game-Based Learning in Education and Health, Part B, Volume 279 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on highly relevant topics including Evaluating the validity of game-based assessments measuring cognitive function among children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Children grow upwards, and so does the number line: Evidence from a directional number line paradigm, and Tasting inhibition: A proof-of-concept study of the food stop-signal game.

  • Lanthanides

    Fundamentals and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Peng Cheng
    • English
    Lanthanides: Fundamentals and Applications provides the fundamentals, new research, promising applications and future outlooks of lanthanide compounds and lanthanide-based materials. The book begins with an introduction, including key concepts, oxidation states and sources, extraction and separation of the lanthanides, followed by spectroscopic and magnetic properties, and metals, crystals and compounds. Organometallic compounds, coordination compounds, molecular magnetic materials and luminescent materials are covered before a discussion of specific lanthanide applications. Spintronics, bioimaging, photoelectric materials, catalysis and nuclear applications are discussed. This comprehensive resource is ideal for researchers and students studying inorganic and materials chemistry, in both academia and industry.

  • The Mindful Health Care Professional

    A Path to Provider Wellness and Patient-centered Care
    • 1st Edition
    • Carmelina D'Arro
    • English
    **2025 PROSE Award of Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences****2025 PROSE Award Category Winner in Nursing & Allied Health Services****Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Patient Education**Research shows that what makes or breaks the success of a health care professional is more than the ability to provide accurate diagnosis and treatment. An HCP’s success hinges on their ability to satisfy patients’ main concerns about HCPs namely, "do they care about me?" and "will the procedure hurt?" The Mindful Health Care Professional: A Path to Provider Wellness and Patient-centered Care teaches HCPs how to train the mind to be calm, focused, and compassionate in ways that enhance their own well-being and their ability to provide patient-centered care. This book offers the core communication skills needed to convey care and build trust with a novel model that helps navigate challenging procedures and consultations. Finally, it contains many simple, evidence-based techniques for managing pain and anxiety during medical and dental procedures, allowing procedures to unfold more easily for all. Written by Dr. Carmelina D’Arro, a seasoned health care professional and qualified mindfulness teacher, this state-of-the-art guide is designed for students in all areas of health care and includes a fully searchable eBook version with each print purchase that provides links to numerous videos.

  • Dihydropyrimidinones as Potent Anticancer Agents

    Medicinal Chemistry Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • Mashooq Ahmad Bhat + 2 more
    • English
    Dihydropyrimidinones as Potent Anticancer Agents gives readers a unique update on scientific knowledge, accomplishments and recent advances in the medicinal chemistry of dihydropyrimidinones in cancer treatment. Dihydropyrimidinones are known to be active scaffold and have been reported to show some exceptional results with regards to malignancies. With ever increasing knowledge and information about synthesis, pharmacology and other aspects of dihydropyrimidinones... there is need to document such information in one place. Since the field of medicinal chemistry is dynamic, with new emerging trends, it provides readily available updated information on chemistry and pharmacology aspects of dihydropyrimidinones in cancer. This book covers everything about dihydropyrimidinones from synthesis, derivatives, mode of action and potential therapeutic targets. It will also provide insights about the clinical trials and way forward in cancer research of dihydropyrimidinones...

  • Inherited Cardiac Diseases Predisposing to Sudden Death, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15-3
    • Rafik Tadros + 2 more
    • English
    In this issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, guest editors Drs. Rafik Tadros, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, and Jason D. Roberts bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inherited Cardiac Diseases Predisposing to Sudden Death. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as genetic counseling and genetic testing in inherited heart disease; implantable devices in genetic heart disease; gene-based therapy in inherited arrythmias and cardiomyopathies; personalized care in long QT syndrome; and more.

  • Ewles and Simnett’s Promoting Health: A Practical Guide

    • 8th Edition
    • Angela Scriven + 2 more
    • English
    The eighth edition of this seminal guide is designed to support public health practitioners in keeping up-to-date amid the rapidly changing, complex challenges and contexts facing population health in the twenty-first century.Suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates across a range of professions, the Practical Guide provides theories, principles and competencies for effective health promotion in multiple settings. The book is organised into three parts, covering an overview of the public health landscape, the essentials of planning and management, and how to develop capabilities across a range of activities.The text has been fully updated to examine new issues facing public health, including restructuring of the UK sector post-European Union; COVID-19 and its public health impact and legacy; economic and cost of living influences on population health; and the role of the internet and social media misinformation.

  • Valorization of Wastes for Sustainable Development

    Waste to Wealth
    • 1st Edition
    • Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian + 4 more
    • English
    Valorization of Wastes for Sustainable Development: Waste to Wealth highlights the various valorization of organic and non-organic waste to offer a way forward to a sustainable world. Categorizing the various types of waste valorization for renewable fuel production and other valorizations utilizing organic and non-organic waste, this book offers the reader a comprehensive view of various waste valorizations together with their potential applications. Split into four sections, the book's chapters cover the general scenarios and challenges of current waste management and the valorization of waste specifically for renewable fuels as the alternative energy source to depleting fossil fuels. Other chapters cover waste valorizations categorized into organic and non-organic waste for various applications and the future prospect of waste valorizations with possible plans and strategies for effective global waste management.

  • Motor System Disorders, Part I

    Normal Physiology and Function and Neuromuscular Disorders
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 195
    • David S. Younger
    • English
    Motor System Disorders, Volume 195, Part One, Normal Physiology and Function and Neuromuscular Disorders summarizes recent advances and best practice for understanding normal physiology and function of the larger motor system as well as the diagnosis, course, and treatment of neuromuscular disorders. The work includes neuroanatomy, circuits, and synapses, and discusses how different parts of the brain contribute to motor control, including both vestibular and cerebellar motor control, as well as the influences of the parietal and frontal lobes. Diagnostic methods include genetic evaluation, electrodiagnosis, pathology, and brain imaging. Neuromuscular disorders of both children and adults are included.

  • Advanced Imaging of the Foot and Ankle, An issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-3
    • Jan Fritz
    • English
    In this issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics, guest editor Dr. Jan Fritz brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Advanced Imaging in Foot and Ankle. Diagnostic imaging and image-guided injections can contribute valuable information for diagnosing and treating a broad spectrum of foot and ankle conditions. In this issue, top experts explore recent substantial technical developments that have considerably expanded the information that can be captured with foot and ankle imaging.

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