Editor Akihito Yokoyama 2019 Bronchial asthma is one of the common diseases among the Japanese, accounting for about 6 10% of the population. A rising prevalence of allergic diseases, such as asthma, had been observed in the past 20–30 years and had been attributed to both Western lifestyle and fewer infections. However, this prevalence has […]

Editors: Maureen Nash, Sarah Foidel 2019 Simply stated, persons living with dementia suffer. This textbook serves as a call to recognize and address the suffering inherent in dementia. Dementia, now referred to as major neurocognitive disorder (MNCD) in the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5), is conceptualized as […]

Lucian L. Leape 2021 The Story of the Patient Safety Movement In late1999, Americans were shocked to learn that the number of patients dying in hospitals from medical errors was the equivalent of the crash of a jumbo jet each day. Some experts even said it was twice that many. The response was immediate. Government, hospitals, professional organizations, regulators, […]

Liam Donaldson • Walter Ricciardi Susan Sheridan • Riccardo Tartaglia Editors 2021 Despite the extensive attention and public commitments towards patient safety over the last two decades, levels of avoidable harm in healthcare around the world remain unacceptably high. By creating a book with broad scope and clear descriptions of the key concepts and thinking in patient safety, we […]

Paolo Falaschi • David Marsh Editors 2021 The Management of Old The first edition of Orthogeriatrics stressed that the key feature of older patients with fragility fractures is that they often have the dual problem of fragility (of the bone) and frailty (of their entire physiology). Therefore, the appropriate mode of management in the acute phase is orthogeriatric […]

Prasun Chatterjee 2019 Perspectives and Narratives from India It gives me immense pleasure to write this foreword to Dr. Prasun Chatterjee’s book Health and Wellbeing in Late Life: Perspectives and Narratives from India. This book will break a new ground in India as it is placed at a unique confluence of medical knowledge and expertise and experiences of […]

Huw Llewelyn Hock Aun Ang Keir Lewis Anees Al-Abdullah 2014 This book helps doctors and students to arrive at a diagnosis, and to explain and to justify their reasoning, especially when seeing patients with new problems that lie outside their personal range of experience. This will happen very frequently to students, frequently to house officers, but will still happen […]

Senior Editor Janet Mohun 2018  

Edited by Michael Glynn William M. Drake 2018 Hutchison’s Clinical Methods is a book for students of all ages and all degrees of experience. Although the scope, complexity and technology of clinical medicine continues to evolve with great speed, the aim of this text is exactly as it was when Robert Hutchison published the very first edition in 1897: to provide […]