Bookedited by Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards, Ellen Nolte.
Summary: "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 sets out why hospitals need to change as the patients they treat and the technology to treat them changes. In a series of chapters by leading authorities in their field, it challenges existing models, reviews best practice from many countries and presents clear policy recommendations for policymakers and hospital administrators. It covers the main patient groups and conditions as well as those departments that make modern effective care possible, in imaging and laboratory medicine. Each chapter looks at patient pathways, aspects of workforce, required levels of specialisation and technology, and the opportunities and challenges for optimising the delivery of services in the hospital of the future"-- Provided by publisher.
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.