Clinical trials require strategic thinking and innovative methods since some traditional methods are not adequate for the 21st century.To solve these problems requires good methodological skills, but also an in-depth knowledge of the practical problems we are dealing with and a strategic vision of the pig picture.

This book draws on the World Cafe methodology, guidelines, and vignettes in developing performance assessment, coaching, training and performance reviews. The author provides lessons learned throughout the text to illustrate the points made in the chapters.

This book helps leaders and healthcare providers better understand how to use patient-reported data to their advantage at the point of service. The book provides the background for developing shared knowledge and shared language, along with extensive examples of dialogue between providers and patients.

Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies undertaken with boards of directors and CEOs in the United States, this groundbreaking book develops a new paradigm to provide a structured analysis of ethical healthcare governance.

The second in a two-part volume, offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.

This volume is an updated practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of spasticity, authored by experienced physicians with different specialties.

This is the first book to argue in favor of paying people for their blood plasma. It does not merely argue that offering compensation to plasma donors is morally permissible. It argues that prohibiting donor compensation is morally wrong-and that it is wrong for all of the reasons that are offered against allowing donor compensation.

This book explores how clinicians, patients, information technology (IT) experts and other professionals are collaborating to support high-value care using information technology in a multitude of settings.

The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science. Contents are set in a clinical context, wherein misconduct and fraud affect rational prescribing, a process that depends on balancing the risk-benefit ratio of treatments, whether pharmacologic or psychotherapeutic.

The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science. Contents are set in a clinical context, wherein misconduct and fraud affect rational prescribing, a process that depends on balancing the risk-benefit ratio of treatments, whether pharmacologic or psychotherapeutic.