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Review AHA Press  / Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets) Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2004-06-01
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $45.00
Price: $298.67

Review Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets) / AHA Press:

An essential reference book every health care provider organization or accounting consultancy must have! Designed to meet the specific needs of financial professionals responsible for ensuring the administration and documentation of their health care organization’s capital investments. Estimated Useful Lives provides clear and concise estimates of the useful life span of hundreds of capital items commonly acquired for the delivery of health care services. It offers reference tables with data for nine primary categories of capital investments: buildings, building components, fixed equipment, building services equipment, administrative departments, nursing departments, diagnostic equipment, treatment equipment, and support departments. The Medicare program recognizes the estimated useful lives as assigned in this book. This book is a 2004 revision and expansion of the 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998 editions. The estimates developed over the course of these seven editions have been based primarily on the recommendations of the following appraisal firms: American Appraisal Associates, Inc. , Milwaukee; Marshall & Stevens Incorporated, St. Louis; Valuation Counselors Group, Inc. , Chicago; and Wellspring Valuation, Ltd. , Chicago. [+]
The publisher is grateful to the following individuals for assisting with the development of the 2004 edition: George S. Arges, Health Data Management Group, American Hospital Association; David S. Felsenthal, Wellspring Valuation, Ltd. ; Martha Garner and Todd Hall, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sally Mason Boemer, Partners Healthcare System; Michael Miller, Healthcare Valuation Services; John S. Oliva, American Appraisal Associates; Ed Pruchunas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Doug Young and Carl Turano, Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-02-10
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $133.00
Price: $91.39

Review HIV Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers / Sage Publications, Inc:

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

Creator: R.D.S. Fawdry
Publication date: 1987-03-01
Dewey code: 618
List Price: $60.00
Price: $114.35

Review The Computer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Oxford University Press, USA:

This book is based on the conference of the same name held in Cambridge, April 1986. Applications discussed range from handling patient records to monitoring both mother and fetus.

Review Taylor & Francis  / Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care) Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $125.00
Price: $91.25

Review Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care) / Taylor & Francis:

This guide for professionals who are working in the complex area of HIV/AIDS provides practical guidance and solutions. Each chapter describes specific needs and solutions based on the options available and personal choice.

Review Taylor & Francis  / Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care) Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $125.00
Price: $91.25

Review Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care) / Taylor & Francis:

This guide for professionals who are working in the complex area of HIV/AIDS provides practical guidance and solutions. Each chapter describes specific needs and solutions based on the options available and personal choice.

Review Jones & Bartlett Publishers  / The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-01-15
Dewey code: 610.68
List Price: $136.95
Price: $136.94

Review The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine / Jones & Bartlett Publishers:

This guidebook addresses the three major financial centers in every physician's life-the medical practice, the pension plan, and personal finances. Listing cases and examples, the author addresses these three interrelated financial centers in a two-phase process: how to conduct practice management review and then how to use this process to establish an ongoing system for successful total financial management. Plus, the second edition has new material on capitation, integrated delivery systems, mergers & acquisitions and practice valuation, pensions, and dealing with managed care companies.

Edition: 2 Rev Upd
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 362.1042
List Price: $91.00
Price: $91.00

Review The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:

Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the black box of medical decision making. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 362.1969792

Review Scaling Up HIV/Aids Programs: A Manual for Multisectoral Planning / Management Sciences for Health:


Edition: 2 Rev Upd
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 362.1042
List Price: $91.00
Price: $91.00

Review The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.:

Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the black box of medical decision making. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-02-10
Dewey code: 362.1969792
List Price: $133.00
Price: $91.39

Review HIV Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers / Sage Publications, Inc:

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

Creator: Ora L. Strickland
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 362.173068
List Price: $62.95
Price: $156.41

Review Measurement of Nursing Outcomes: Measuring Clinical Skills and Professional Development in Education and Practice (Measurement of Nursing Outcomes Vol. 4) / Springer Publishing Company:

To be completed in four volumes. Papers from a University of Maryland School of Nursing research project conference. DNLM: 1. Nursing - methods.

Review Routledge  / Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-12-01
Dewey code: 362.19683
List Price: $90.95
Price: $90.83

Review Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations / Routledge:

Seeking to assist professionals and care providers looking to develop culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders, this book first presents the need for culturally sensitive care, and then describes how this method of care may be utilized, developed, approved, and evaluated. The book includes numerous case studies, and highlights the authors' model. ; Dealing with facets of intercultural practice, Part 1 of the text centres around the professional or provider already engaged or seeking to engage in day-to-day contact with ethnically diverse clientele. The emphasis is on highlighting those skills which serve the practitioner to establish intercultural rapport on their daily cross- ethnic assignments. The central tenet of this section is that the worker's attention has to be on maintaining both the dementia-affected elders' and the ethnic family members' cultural dignity.

Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 362.1969792

Review Scaling Up HIV/Aids Programs: A Manual for Multisectoral Planning / Management Sciences for Health:


Review Nova Biomedical Books  / Health Care Issues Creator: Mary N. Smyth
Publication date: 2005-12
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $150.00
Price: $91.25

Review Health Care Issues / Nova Biomedical Books:

Health care is clearly in transition - but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? Don't ask the patients, for they have become the ping pong balls in the health care game. This book examines important issues in this ever-growing maze.

Creator: R.D.S. Fawdry
Publication date: 1987-03-01
Dewey code: 618
List Price: $60.00
Price: $114.35

Review The Computer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology / Oxford University Press, USA:

This book is based on the conference of the same name held in Cambridge, April 1986. Applications discussed range from handling patient records to monitoring both mother and fetus.

Review Nova Biomedical Books  / Health Care Issues Creator: Mary N. Smyth
Publication date: 2005-12
Dewey code: 362.1
List Price: $150.00
Price: $91.25

Review Health Care Issues / Nova Biomedical Books:

Health care is clearly in transition - but to where? Managed or unmanaged care? HMO's or not? Are insurance companies and hospitals the enemy of health care for their own patients? What about the 40,000,000 uninsured in America? Don't ask the patients, for they have become the ping pong balls in the health care game. This book examines important issues in this ever-growing maze.

Review Jones & Bartlett Publishers  / The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-01-15
Dewey code: 610.68
List Price: $136.95
Price: $136.94

Review The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine / Jones & Bartlett Publishers:

This guidebook addresses the three major financial centers in every physician's life-the medical practice, the pension plan, and personal finances. Listing cases and examples, the author addresses these three interrelated financial centers in a two-phase process: how to conduct practice management review and then how to use this process to establish an ongoing system for successful total financial management. Plus, the second edition has new material on capitation, integrated delivery systems, mergers & acquisitions and practice valuation, pensions, and dealing with managed care companies.

Review AHA Press  / Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets) Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2004-06-01
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $45.00
Price: $298.67

Review Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets) / AHA Press:

An essential reference book every health care provider organization or accounting consultancy must have! Designed to meet the specific needs of financial professionals responsible for ensuring the administration and documentation of their health care organization’s capital investments. Estimated Useful Lives provides clear and concise estimates of the useful life span of hundreds of capital items commonly acquired for the delivery of health care services. It offers reference tables with data for nine primary categories of capital investments: buildings, building components, fixed equipment, building services equipment, administrative departments, nursing departments, diagnostic equipment, treatment equipment, and support departments. The Medicare program recognizes the estimated useful lives as assigned in this book. This book is a 2004 revision and expansion of the 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998 editions. The estimates developed over the course of these seven editions have been based primarily on the recommendations of the following appraisal firms: American Appraisal Associates, Inc. , Milwaukee; Marshall & Stevens Incorporated, St. Louis; Valuation Counselors Group, Inc. , Chicago; and Wellspring Valuation, Ltd. , Chicago. [+]
The publisher is grateful to the following individuals for assisting with the development of the 2004 edition: George S. Arges, Health Data Management Group, American Hospital Association; David S. Felsenthal, Wellspring Valuation, Ltd. ; Martha Garner and Todd Hall, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Sally Mason Boemer, Partners Healthcare System; Michael Miller, Healthcare Valuation Services; John S. Oliva, American Appraisal Associates; Ed Pruchunas, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Doug Young and Carl Turano, Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Creator: Ora L. Strickland
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 362.173068
List Price: $62.95
Price: $156.41

Review Measurement of Nursing Outcomes: Measuring Clinical Skills and Professional Development in Education and Practice (Measurement of Nursing Outcomes Vol. 4) / Springer Publishing Company:

To be completed in four volumes. Papers from a University of Maryland School of Nursing research project conference. DNLM: 1. Nursing - methods.

Review Routledge  / Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-12-01
Dewey code: 362.19683
List Price: $90.95
Price: $90.83

Review Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations / Routledge:

Seeking to assist professionals and care providers looking to develop culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders, this book first presents the need for culturally sensitive care, and then describes how this method of care may be utilized, developed, approved, and evaluated. The book includes numerous case studies, and highlights the authors' model. ; Dealing with facets of intercultural practice, Part 1 of the text centres around the professional or provider already engaged or seeking to engage in day-to-day contact with ethnically diverse clientele. The emphasis is on highlighting those skills which serve the practitioner to establish intercultural rapport on their daily cross- ethnic assignments. The central tenet of this section is that the worker's attention has to be on maintaining both the dementia-affected elders' and the ethnic family members' cultural dignity.

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Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets), HIV Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers, The Computer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care), Hiv/Aids: Loss, Grief, Challenge And Hope (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health Care), The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine, The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care, Scaling Up HIV/Aids Programs: A Manual for Multisectoral Planning, The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care, HIV Care: A Comprehensive Handbook for Providers, Measurement of Nursing Outcomes: Measuring Clinical Skills and Professional Development in Education and Practice (Measurement of Nursing Outcomes Vol. 4), Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations, Scaling Up HIV/Aids Programs: A Manual for Multisectoral Planning, Health Care Issues, The Computer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Health Care Issues, The Family Practitioner's Survival Guide to the Business of Medicine, Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Asset, Revised 2004 Edition (Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Hospital Assets), Measurement of Nursing Outcomes: Measuring Clinical Skills and Professional Development in Education and Practice (Measurement of Nursing Outcomes Vol. 4), Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations

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