The rehabilitation profession's best-selling text that provides step-by-step guidance for evidence-based practice has been updated into an expanded Second Edition.Written specifically for students and practitioners in both occupational and physical therapy, "Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition" focuses on building ...
The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then describes the error in detail, explains why therapists make the mistake and offers tactics for avoiding it.
This pocket-sized quick-reference handbook presents evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders. The authors summarize the latest and best clinical studies supporting the practice recommendations and grade each study to indicate the benefits and risks of the therapy and the reliability of the study results. ...
Written for physical therapists, massage therapists and occupational therapists, "Outcome-Based Massage" is the first text to introduce soft tissue massage techniques with functional outcomes in mind. By establishing a critical thinking process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice, students and clinicians from a variety of health ...
This comprehensive text provides a wealth of basic and advanced information on the theory and manual technique of massage. Written for physical therapists, massage therapists and occupational therapists, this text introduces an evidence-based clinical reasoning process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice. Based on outcome ...
This eagerly awaited book shows how skillful case formulation addresses a critical challenge in psychotherapy today: how to use empirically supported therapies (ESTs) in real-world clinical contexts. The author explains the basic theories of cognition, learning, and emotion that underlie available ESTs and shows how the theories also guide ...
"Doctors of Deception" is a revealing history of ECT (or shock therapy) in the United States, told here for the first time. Through the examination of court records, medical data, FDA reports, industry claims, her own experience as a patient of shock therapy, and the stories of others, Andre exposes tactics used by the industry to promote ECT as a ...
Completely updated and expanded, this new edition of "Regional Anesthesia: Managing Complications, 2nd edition" is essential reading for advice on the prevention and management of complications associated with regional anesthesia and nerve blocks. In addition to comprehensive coverage of all potential pitfalls a practitioner may encounter, new ...
Examining the principles and methods of research on the evaluation of factors affecting the outcome of illness, this book emphasizes diagnostic and therapeutic interventions - the factors most readily modified by health care providers. It discusses the various ways of structuring observations on patient groups, and appraises the nature and ...
The "Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology" provides a streamlined text for evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medicines. It includes a brief introduction to pharmacoepidemiology as well as sections on data sources, methodology and applications. Each chapter includes key points, case studies and essential references. It is a one-step resource ...
This book details the successful psychodynamically-oriented inpatient treatment of 90 young adults suffering from severe mental illness. It documents the nuances of changing troubled behavior, describes behaviors which predict future positive behavioral change, and provides a sophisticated new technique to document change. Clinicians will ...
Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician ...
It is an irony that therapists and counselors--the professional listeners--have been reluctant to hear the criticisms and challenges of their customers. Many clients suffer disappointment with their therapy experience, yet the profession continues unchanged, creating the illusion that it is only a tiny, beyond-help minority who do not benefit. ...
Originally introduced several decades ago, myocardial revascularization on the beating heart was largely abandoned as new techniques for extracorporeal circulation were developed. While the popularity of coronary surgery on the arrested heart remained undisputed for decades, a belief in the benefits of avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass and ...
Explains concepts in treatment outcomes, how they are measured, and their implications for practice. Part I overviews clinical issues associated with treatment outcomes, discussing outcomes measures, monitoring and management, and the shift from generic to prescriptive treatment. Part II covers cli
This book is a report of the findings of the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS), Focusing on variations in the course and outcome of schizophrenic disorders, the investigation covers 14 countries in both the developed and developing world. The bulk of the volume consists of portraits of individual field research centres in each country ...
This is a fascinating, hopeful new book that demonstrates how may childhood disorders can be treated successfully without pharmaceuticals. This is very good news indeed. Neurofeedback is effective 80 percent of the time; there are none of the side-effects associated with drugs commonly used to treat various childhood ailments; and it is a non ...
Presents outcomes-based guidelines for all types of surgery in patients with HIV/AIDS and complications of AIDS. The text describes the nature of the surgical pathology found in this patient population and presents outcomes-based treatment algorithms to guide the surgeon's decision-making in management of patients with HIV/AIDS. The ...
Designed for quick reference, this pocket-sized handbook presents evidence-based diagnostic and treatment recommendations for 40 endocrine diseases and summarizes the clinical trial data that are crucial in therapeutic decision-making. Chapters cover diseases in the eight major areas of endocrinology - hypothalamic-pituitary, thyroid, adrenal ...
Quality of Life & Pharmacoeconomics: An Introduction will familiarize students, clinicians, and researchers with the key principles and methods of quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness assessment in clinical trials. The book is based on abstracted material from the Second Edition of Dr. Spilker's definitive reference, Quality of Life and ...
This reference streamlines practical guidance for the selection of POCT technologies according to technical performance, patient need, and management practices. It examines best practice of POCT and offers integrative strategies, performance maps, and treatment pathways for illustrating effective rapid-response testing processes in critical care. ...
The topic of terminating therapy is not one that clinicians normally consider. However, the session limits placed on clinicians by managed care require that the end of therapy be built into the treatment plan from the onset. With a focus on the termination of psychotherapy, "A Clinician's Guide" examines the pertinent additional training that will ...
Here's the first nursing resource to provide interdisciplinary outcome pathways for the most commonly encountered critical care problems. 43 pathways address the complete spectrum of critical care settings, and can be implemented as they are, or customized to meet the needs of individual patients or institutions.
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