An Introduction to Hospitals and Inpatient Care Book

	Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
1	Hospitals: From Stand-Alone to Networks and Systems	3
2	Paying for Hospital Care	16
3	Working in Teams	28
4	Nurses and Nursing Care	37
5	Training Physicians in the Hospital	44
6	Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners	54
7	Medical Informatics	64
8	Hospitalization Can Be Dangerous	79
9	Preventing Functional Decline	89
10	Choosing Alternatives to Restraints	101
11	Deciding About Diets	114
12	Wound Care	133
13	The Delirious Patient	146
14	Isolation	160
15	Care Management and Case Management	171
16	Hospitalists	187
17	Easing the Transition Between Nursing Home and Hospital	198
18	Discharge Planning	210
19	Maintaining the Patient's Health in the Community	220
20	Families: Roles, Needs, and Expectations	235
21	Providing Culturally Competent Care	244
22	Ethics Committees and Case Consultation	256
23	The Patient as Research Participant	268
24	End-of-Life Care Planning	279
25	Preventing Errors	295
26	Risk Management	307
27	The Role of Outcomes Research	318
28	Creating Quality Improvement Projects	326
	Index	339