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Introducing the first evidence-based casebook for hospital clinicians
This book introduces illustrated, evidence-based clinical cases drawn from real-world hospital practice. Geared to the needs of hospital clinicians, Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine focuses on sharpening clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, giving readers the tools to recognize and diagnose a wide array of diseases, while promoting diagnostic safety in hospital medicine.
Written by leading experts on the topics under discussion, this volume offers a hand-picked collection of case studies from the widely popular Clinical Care Conundrum (CCC) series found in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Each chapter presents a case to an expert clinician, who explains his or her approach to diagnosing challenging medical dilemmas. Each chapter concludes with a concise review of recent literature and, if applicable, with discussions of cognitive errors that may impact clinical diagnosis and patient care. Readers will find:
Clinical Care Conundrums is an indispensable reference for hospitalists, hospital-based physicians and midlevel providers, physicians-in-training, and the many other medical practitioners who come up against difficult cases on a daily basis.
1. Introduction
2. Improving Diagnostic Safety in Hospital Medicine: Can Clinical Care Conundrums Help?
3. Cracking the Case
4. A Midlife Crisis
5. Fishing for a Diagnosis
6. A Rash Decision
7. One Hundred Years Later
8. The Third Time’s the Charm
9. A Frayed Knot
10. Better Late than Never
11. Thinking Inside the Box
12. Are We There Yet?
13. A Distinguishing Feature
14. Consequences of Missed Opportunities
15. In Sight but Out of Mind
16. A Change of Heart
17. Missing the Forest for the Trees
18. A Pain in the Bone
19. A Diagnosis of Exclusion
20. Making a List and Checking it Twice
21. Caught in the Web
22. In the Face of it All
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