The changing role of the hospital in European health systems / / edited by Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards, Ellen Nolte.
Hospitals today face a huge number of challenges, including new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations and continuing budget constraints. This book is written by clinicians for clinicians and hospital managers, and those who design and operate hospitals. It se...
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| Superior document: | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 305 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2020). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - The changing nature of care provided in the hospital
- The challenges of adapting hospital care for children
- Patients with stroke
- Meeting the needs of frail older patients
- Oncological hospital care
- COPD as an exemplar of a chronic health condition
- Emergency medicine
- Advances in perioperative medicine
- Advances in imaging
- Advances in laboratory medicine
- Conclusions - Challenges for hospitals of the future.