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Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition,Hospital Medicineoffers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management—and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field—Hospital Medicineincludes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management. Subscribe toLippincott's Interactive Anesthesia Libraryand get online access to the fully searchable content ofHospital Medicineand of the most critically acclaimed references in anesthesiology, critical care, and pain management. - from Amzon