Hospital Medicine Pocket Guide: Patient care, Documentation, Coding and Critical Issues

This pocket guide is written with the twin objectives of educating medical professionals about efficient practice of hospital medicine and to create awareness about business of medical care. Understanding of business side of the medicine along with efficient but quality care is a key advantage for this pivotal era. This guide gives physicians/hospitalists, medical residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, and others the knowledge and skills required to compete successfully in today’s complex health care environment. The pocket guide contains chapters on: • Efficient Hospital Care • Safety • DRGs, CPTs and Coding • Admission Criteria • Core Measures/HCAHPS • Appropriate Documentation and Compliance • Critical Issues in Hospital Medicine such as, -Breaking Bad News to Patients, -Delivering a Death Message, -Withholding or Withdrawing Life Support, -Determining Brain Death, -Dealing with Difficult Patients, -Discharging the Un-dischargeable, -Hospice or Comfort Care, -Readmission - Ways to Tackle, and -Pain Management and Opioid Use.