The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems
Published on 13. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-1-108-79005-5 (ISBN)
Description
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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Reviews / Votes
The changing role of the hospital in European health systems gives an accurate picture of the changes taking place. Particularly well illustrated by key fields of transformation, it helps the reader clarify the complex landscape of hospital care. Pascal Garel, Chief Executive, European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (hope) Recent experience shows that advances in medical and information technology, far from making hospitals obsolete, increase our dependence on them and they are here to stay. While the conclusion of this thoughtful volume is that it is impossible to know what the hospitals of the future will look like, the authors nonetheless highlight the main societal and technological influences that will shape them. Those responsible for our future planning, if their crystal ball is hazy, could do no better than consult this lucid account of these key factors. Sir Ian Gilmore, Director, Liverpool Centre for Alcohol ResearchMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Tables, black and white; 26 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-79005-5 (9781108790055)
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E-Book
08/2020
Cambridge University Press
€34.49
Available for download
Martin McKee | Sherry Merkur | Nigel Edwards
The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems
E-Book
08/2020
Cambridge University Press
€47.99
Available for download
Persons
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Content
Part I: 1. Introduction: The changing nature of care provided in the hospital Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards and Ellen Nolte; 2. The challenges of adapting hospital care for children Jochen Ehrich, Massimo Pettoello-Mantovan, Eleanor Molloy, Reinhold Kerbl, Mehmet Vural, Simon Lenton, Stefano del Torso, Adamos Hadjipanayis, Bjoern Wettergren and Zachi Grossman; 3. Patients with stroke Benjamin Bray, Anthony Rudd, Phil White, Bo Norrving and Charles Wolfe; 4. Meeting the needs of frail older patients Sherena Nair, David Oliver and Alison Cracknell; 5. Oncological hospital care Anke Wind, Wim van Harten, Sigbjorn Smeland, Lucia da Pieve and Wim Groen; Part II: 6. COPD as an exemplar of a chronic health condition C. Michael Roberts, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos and Robab Breyer-Kohansal; 7. Emergency medicine Matthew Cooke, Clifford Mann and Nigel Edwards; 8. Advances in perioperative medicine Marc Wittenberg, Harry Thirkettle and Michael Grocott; 9. Advances in imaging Peter Cavanagh; 10. Advances in laboratory medicine Rachael Liebmann and Digby Ingle; 11. Conclusions: Challenges for hospitals of the future Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards and Ellen Nolte.