Igiene

I Filoviridae sono arrivati all'onore della cronaca solo recentemente quando, dopo diverse epidemie di ridottissime dimensioni, dalla fine del 2013 al marzo del 2016 Ebola ha originato un focolaio epidemico che ha coinvolto buona parte dell'Africa occidentale. Quest'ultima epidemia ha ampiamente superato ogni altra precedente sia come durata che come numero di soggetti umani affetti e morti, tanto da costituire una vera situazione di allarme mondiale. Sebbene tali virus accompagnino la nostra specie da molto tempo, l'andamento storico-epidemiologico sembrerebbe suggerire un recente progressivo adattamento alla nostra specie, forse dovuto alle crescenti occasioni di contatto fra virus e uomo, cosa che sembrerebbe confermata dall'attuale epidemia in Congo (maggio 2017). Gli Autori sono tra i fondatori della International Medicine Society. La Medicina Internazionale è una branca ispirata agli insegnamenti del comune Maestro Prof. Corrado Bianchini e ai principi del Nobel Albert Schweitzer.

Improve clinical competence and performance, deliver better health care, and enhance patient outcomes. Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Health Care helps you design, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based continuing education and professional development programs with the goal of keeping practitioners' knowledge, skills, attitudes, competencies, and performance current and patient centered. Authored by key thought leaders in the field, including members of the Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME), the book presents today's most advanced thinking on how to empower clinicians to continuously improve their performance throughout their professional careers. Organized under five critical themes and 28 essential topics, the book's chapters start with cases describing real-world dilemmas; continue with evidence-based theories, solutions, and/or resources; and close with "future directions" and contemporary reference lists.Use continuing education to transform the delivery of care - with multidisciplinary guidance that draws on theoretical frameworks and evolving evidence from engineering, neuroscience, education, organization management, sociology, and psychology.Master techniques for maximizing educational benefits (learning, administrative, and otherwise) - from the evolution of core competencies to advances in simulation.Access evidence-informed techniques for providing realistic, personal needs assessments to improve health outcomes.Accommodate needs for education that are more flexible, efficient, effective, and accessible, with less need to travel.Promote evolving new competencies in clinician-patient communication and clinician cultural awareness.Explore methods for conducting research to measure the degree of effectiveness in professional education. In an era of rapidly changing health systems, anyone responsible for improving health professionals' continuing professional development is strongly encouraged to take advantage of the guidance within Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Health Care.

The first comprehensive, authoritative review of one of the most fundamental and important issues in infection control and patient safety, hand hygiene. Developed and presented by the world's leading scholar-clinicians, Hand Hygiene is an essential resource for all medical professionals. * Developed and presented by the world leaders in this fundamental topic * Fully integrates World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and policies * Offers a global perspective in tackling hand hygiene issues in developed and developing countries * Coverage of basic and highly complex clinical applications of hand hygiene practices * Includes novel and unusual aspects and issues in hand hygiene such as religious and cultural aspects and patient participation * Offers guidance at the individual, institutional, and organizational levels for national and worldwide hygiene promotion campaigns

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