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  • Weedon's Skin Pathology

    • 6th Edition
    • James W. Patterson
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Dermatology**Cutaneo... biopsies and excisions constitute the most frequently performed procedures in surgical pathology, yet they present some of the most difficult diagnostic challenges. Through five authoritative editions, Weedon's Skin Pathology has earned outstanding reviews and accolades from practicing and trainee dermatopathologists, general pathologists, and dermatologists worldwide. The 6th Edition continues this tradition of excellence, helping you accurately and efficiently sign out complex skin cases in everyday practice, while also keeping you up to date with recent advances in the field. Dr. James W. Patterson’s single-author approach continues to provide clarity and consistency from cover to cover, resulting in what has been described as “the best reference text available in dermatopathology in the world” (Pathology).

  • Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 33-4
    • Kimberly Gordon Achebe + 2 more
    • English
    In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, Rupinder K. Legha, and Michelle P. Durham bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis. Top experts in the field discuss strategies to empower pediatric communities and their families in times of crisis, by optimizing community partnership with preventative and crisis response interventions for de-escalation and stabilization, expanding financial supports for community and home based mental health services; promoting community oriented emergency psychiatry and mobile crisis service delivery; and promoting local, state, and federal policy intervention for systems of care that focus on the collective health and well-being in environments of children and their families.

  • Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice

    • 1st Edition
    • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva + 8 more
    • English
    Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice, externally commissioned by the American Medical Association and part of the AMA MedEd Innovation Series, explores and addresses these ongoing issues. Using both theoretical and practical approaches, medical educators share a vision of medical education through a social justice lens. The resulting volume focuses on equity throughout medical education: improving the diversity of the student, faculty, and health workforce and ameliorating inequitable outcomes among minoritized and marginalized patient populations. This unique, change-oriented text.

  • Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment

    Promoting Occupational Participation
    • 8th Edition
    • Michael Curtin + 6 more
    • English
    Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment: Promoting Occupational Participation, Eighth Edition is a seminal textbook that has been used in preregistration occupational therapy education for more than 40 years.Now in its eighth edition, it reflects significant developments within the occupational profession and the contexts of the delivery of health and social care when working with people who experience illness, injury or impairment to promote occupational participation. It is highly regarded for its level of detail, its practical approach, and the breadth of its content, with input from multiple authors from around the world.Fully updated and built around the professional concepts and processes to promote occupational participation this invaluable resource will enable occupational therapists link theory with day-to-day practice, reflect on the knowledge, expertise and attitudes that inform their work and practice in a critically reflexive way.

  • Conceptual Nursing Care Planning

    • 2nd Edition
    • Mariann M. Harding + 1 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Nursing Process**Plan effective patient care using standardized interprofessional clinical problems and a concept-based approach! Conceptual Nursing Care Planning, 2nd Edition, shows you how to identify clinical problems, determine expected outcomes, and choose interventions — all grounded in a logical, concept-based framework. The focus on concepts gives you the big picture, helping you recognize similarities in nursing care based on physiologic concepts, as well as differences based on the needs of individuals. Written by noted nursing educators Mariann Harding and Debra Hagler, this unique book demonstrates how the use of a concept-based approach and standardized clinical problems language makes it easier to plan effective care and communicate with other members of the interprofessional team.

  • Netter's Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry

    • 4th Edition
    • Neil S. Norton + 1 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Dentistry**A concise and highly visual guide to clinically relevant anatomy for dentistry, as well as a valuable resource for any healthcare professional interested in head and neck anatomy, Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, 4th Edition, is an ideal text/atlas for class and exam preparation, as well as a quick review in professional practice. Concise text, high-yield tables, clinical correlations, and review questions combine to make this new edition a perfect choice for learning and remembering the need-to-know structures, relationships, and concepts, while beautiful illustrations enhance your visual mastery of the material.

  • Advances in Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy, An Issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 34-4
    • Violeta Popov + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Violeta Popov and Shelby Sullivan bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Advances in Bariatric and Metabolic Endoscopy. Minimally invasive metabolic and bariatric endoscopic therapies can bridge the gap between surgical interventions and medical therapy, and recent advances have facilitated personalized and patient-targeted treatment options for specific disease states. In addition, these techniques can target different parts of the GI tract that may be responsible for the pathophysiology of obesity and metabolic syndromes. This issue provides state-of-the-art clinical reviews on the technical aspects of these procedures as well as patient management.

  • Die Handchirurgie

    • 2nd Edition
    • Michael Sauerbier + 3 more
    • German
    „Die Handchirurgie“ – das Standardwerk zum FachVon den Grundlagen bis zur Durchführung komplexer Operationen zeigt Ihnen das Buch die ganze Breite der Handchirurgie. Aufbau und Layout unterstützen Sie dabei, die wesentlichen Aspekte schnell zu erfassen.Alle relevanten und häufigen Methoden werden detailliert vorgestellt: Anatomie, Ätiologie, Pathogenese, Klassifikation, Durchführung, Nachbehandlung.Mehr als 1.100 aussagekräftige Fotos und Zeichnungen zeigen Ihnen, worauf es ankommt. Besonders hilfreich sind die Abschnitte "Bevorzugte Methode des Autors", die gerade Anfängern in der Handchirurgie zeigen, wie es erfahrene Kollegen machen.Die Handchirurgie - verfasst von den führenden Experten im deutschsprachigen Raum und unter der Schirmherrschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie (DGH).Neu in der 2. Auflage:Bildmaterial durch zahlreiche hervorragende Zeichnungen von Prof. Martin F. Langer ergänztViele Kapitel komplett neu erstellt, insbesondere:Sehnenc... RehabilitationEndopr... 25 Videos, diediagnostische Tests erklärenMöglichkeite... der Prothesenversorgung aufzeigenden Heilungsverlauf von Betroffenen dokumentierenDas Buch eignet sich für:Fachärzte und -ärztinnen mit Zusatzbezeichnung HandchirurgieFachärz... und -ärztinnen für Plastische, Rekonstruktive und Ästhetische ChirurgieFachärzte und -ärztinnen Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie

  • Publica o perece

    Manual de instrucciones para escribir y publicar artículos en Ciencias de la Salud
    • 2nd Edition
    • Genís Carrasco Gómez + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Publica o perece. Manual de instrucciones para escribir y publicar artículos en Ciencias de la Salud es un libro riguroso y documentado sobre redacción científica escrito en un lenguaje ágil, ameno y no exento de humor. Se trata de un manual de carácter práctico y distinto de otros que se centran en la sintaxis, la gramática y el estilo formal del lenguaje científico. Publica o perece permite aclarar todas las dudas sobre el método de escritura sin necesidad de tener conocimientos previos, a la vez que permite disfrutar aprendiendo.

  • Tratado de enfermería gerontogeriátrica

    • 1st Edition
    • Almudena Avendaño Céspedes + 2 more
    • Spanish
    Tratado de Enfermería gerontogeriátrica establece, por primera vez en lengua española, los fundamentos de la rama de la Enfermería que estudia los cuidados profesionales y basados en la evidencia científica a las personas mayores. Liderado por enfermeras especialistas en Geriatría, el tratado recoge todos los aspectos relacionados con la Enfermería gerontogeriátrica como disciplina que se está estableciendo como propia y reconocida a nivel internacional. Esta obra de referencia está dirigida a enfermeras especialistas en Geriatría y enfermeras que trabajan con las personas mayores en cualquier dispositivo de salud o social, así como a estudiantes de Enfermería, residentes de Enfermería geriátrica y otros profesionales de la salud que atienden a las personas mayores.

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