Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine provides a unique resource for medical students and junior doctors as a definitive guide to medicine. It is divided into 19 chapters, each covering a core area, including chest medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, renal medicine, haematology, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology and palliative care, rheumatology, surgery, clinical chemistry, radiology, practical procedures, and emergency medicine. It presents clinical information in a clear way that makes it easy to revise, remember, and implement on the ward. It gives reliable advice on what to do, and when and how to do it, with clinical photographs and diagrams that bring theory to life. It weaves history, literature, art, and philosophy into its survey of medicine, casting new light on the specialties and encouraging the reader to see beyond the practical aspects of medicine and adopt a patient-centred approach to care.

Impact of Home-to-Centre Distance on Bone Marrow Transplantation Outcomes

“…Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) includes peripheral blood stem cell, umbilical cord stem cell and bone marrow transplantations. HSCT is used as a treatment modality to replace congenital or acquired life-threating abnormal bone marrow with normal haematopoietic stem cells to allow haematopoietic reconstitution after chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy 1. A number of complications are associated with HSCT, including infections, haemorrhage, graft failure, secondary malignancies and chronic and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGvHD) 2…”

An Ontological Framework for Supporting the Design and Evaluation of Visual Analytics Systems

“…Ideally, there could be an ontology that captures the experience and knowledge of VA researchers and developers by recording and categorizing various technical shortcomings to be addressed in a VA workflow, their analysis about the causes of such problems, the design options of possible technical solutions, the undesirable secondary effects due to the chosen solutions, the further solutions for addressing the secondary effects, and so forth. In many ways, this bears some resemblance to the notions of “symptoms”, “causes”, “remedies”, and “side‐effects” in medicine [WRW∗17,JRW∗18,TO17], which have been studied and documented for centuries and millennia.…”

“…These will include compiling handbooks (cf. handbooks for clinicians [WRW∗17, JRW∗18, TO17, KE16, IDF18]), developing regimented approaches for working with domain experts (cf. The Calgary‐Cambridge Guide to the Medical Interview [KSD98,SKD98]), using VA to support the exploration of the problem‐solution space, and providing VA‐assisted decision support in the design, development, evaluation, and optimization of VA processes, systems, and workflows (cf.…”

The influence of the media on the formation of cognitive dissonance in the doctor-to-patient interaction

“…Предлагаемый подход к коммуникативным процессам, рассматривающий врача и пациента в одной системе взаимодействий, имеет ряд важных характерных черт. Прежде всего, это этические параметры [30][31][32][33], фиксирующие строгие рамки корректного профессионального поведения; во-вторых, это процедура принятия решения [34,35] для определения дальнейших шагов; также сюда относятся коммуникативные модели общения [36] и поиск общего языка с помощью особых сформулированных вопросов для обеспечения необhttps://doi.org/10.17816/clinpract101108-113 www.clinpractice.ru ходимой степени доверия и взаимопонимания [37][38][39][40]. Такие поступательно оформленные этапы работы системы врач-пациент позволяют регулировать в реальном времени и то, что касается качества медицинской помощи [41], а следовательно, в превентивном режиме контролировать сложнейшую тему, всегда вызывающую широкий общественный резонанс, -тему врачебных ошибок [42,43].…”