Self-Management Toolkit - Carers Edition


Book Description

The Self-Management Toolkit is for people who are Carers and also living with long-term health conditions. Who want to learn some extra simple skills, so they feel more in control and get back in the driving seat.




The 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit


Book Description

In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their knowledge and resources with regard to strategies for improving patient care for five common chronic illnesses. This summit was a direct outgrowth and continuation of the recommendations put forth in the 2001 IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. The summit's purpose was to offer specific guidance at both the community and national levels for overcoming the challenges to the provision of high-quality care articulated in the Quality Chasm report and for moving closer to achievement of the patient-centerd health care system envisioned therein.




My Pain Toolkit


Book Description

My Pain Toolkit is for young people and teenagers living with persistent pain Does pain stop you from doing the things you enjoy? Do you struggle to understand your pain? Do you want your pain to stop controlling you? If any of these questions are true then this toolkit is for you! My Pain Toolkit is a simple guide that gives you some handy tips and skills to help you to understand and manage pain better! “I loved My Pain Toolkit, as it wasn't talking at me, but just giving me some tips and ideas that others have used to manage their pain.” F.N. Essex




User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


Book Description

User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a global discussion on the practice of user-driven learning in healthcare and connected disciplines and its influence on learning through clinical problem solving. This book brings together different perspectives for researchers and practitioners to develop a comprehensive framework of user-driven healthcare.




Contemporary Nursing Knowledge


Book Description

The 3rd Edition of this AJN Book-of-the-Year Award-Winner helps you answer those questions with a unique approach to the scientific basis of nursing knowledge. Using conceptual models, grand theories, and middle-range theories as guidelines you will learn about the current state and future of nurse educators, nurse researchers, nurse administrators, and practicing nurses.







Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


Book Description

The development of better processes to provide proper healthcare has enhanced contemporary society. By implementing effective collaborative strategies, this ensures proper quality and instruction for both the patient and medical practitioners. Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on emerging strategies and methods for delivering optimal healthcare and examines the latest techniques and methods of clinical science. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as medication management, health literacy, and patient engagement, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, researchers, academics, and graduate students interested in healthcare delivery and clinical science.







Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living


Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, held in Salamanca, Spain in June 2009. The 167 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from over 230 submissions. The papers are organized in thematic sections on theoretical foundations and models; learning and adaptation; self-organizing networks, methods and applications; fuzzy systems; evolutionary computation and genetic algoritms; pattern recognition; formal languages in linguistics; agents and multi-agent on intelligent systems; brain-computer interfaces (bci); multiobjetive optimization; robotics; bioinformatics; biomedical applications; ambient assisted living (aal) and ambient intelligence (ai); other applications.