{PDF} Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine Scott A. Flanders, Sanjay Saint(eds.)

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: An appealing presentation style that combines high-quality images and textCoverage of both common conditions and uncommon but important diseases encountered in the hospital settingA look at the state of the art of clinical reasoning, an area of critical interest to cliniciansPractical “pearls” for each case study that readers can apply in their own practice
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.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Clinical Care Conundrums in Hospital Medicine (pages 1?3): Robert M. Wachter
Chapter 2 Improving Diagnostic Safety in Hospital Medicine: Can Clinical Care Conundrums Help? (pages 5?18): Edward E. Etchells, Kaveh G. Shojania and Donald A. Redelmeier
Chapter 3 Cracking the Case (pages 19?25): Jennei Wei, Patrick P. Kneeland and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Chapter 4 A Midlife Crisis (pages 27?33): Jennifer R. Lukela, Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, Lawrence M. Tierney, John Del Valle and Sanjay Saint
Chapter 5 Fishing for a Diagnosis (pages 35?42): Colin R. Cooke, John V. L. Sheffield and Jan V. Hirschmann
Chapter 6 A Rash Decision (pages 43?49): Brian J. Harte, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Wendy Armstrong and James C. Pile
Chapter 7 One Hundred Years Later (pages 51?57): Thomas E. Baudendistel, Nima Afshar and Lawrence M. Tierney
Chapter 8 The Third Time’s the Charm (pages 59?67): Sara Mekuria, Esteban Cheng Ching, S. A. Josephson, Jinny Tavee and Brian J. Harte
Chapter 9 A Frayed Knot (pages 69?76): Thomas E. Baudendistel, Irena L. Ilic and Harry Hollander
Chapter 10 Better Late than Never (pages 77?85): Anuradha Ramaswamy, Maytee Boonyapredee, Ramakrishnan Ranganath, Brian J. Harte and James C. Pile
Chapter 11 Thinking Inside the Box (pages 87?93): Damon M. Kwan, Gurpreet Dhaliwal and Thomas E. Baudendistel
Chapter 12 Are we there Yet? (pages 95?104): Lisa H. Williams, Gregory J. Raugi, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Sanjay Saint and Benjamin A. Lipsky
Chapter 13 A Distinguishing Feature (pages 105?112): Sanjiv J. Shah, Aubrey O. Ingraham, Sandra Y. Chung and Richard J. Haber
Chapter 14 Consequences of Missed Opportunities (pages 113?119): Julia C. Dombrowski, Helen Kao, Natasha Renda and R. J. Kohlwes
Chapter 15 In Sight but out of Mind (pages 121?126): Letizia Attala, Adam Tremblay, Giampaolo Corti, Sanjay Saint and Alessandro Bartoloni
Chapter 16 A Change of Heart (pages 127?135): Jonathan P. Piccini, Adrian F. Hernandez, Louis R. Dibernardo, Joseph G. Rogers and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Chapter 17 Missing the Forest for the Trees (pages 137?142): Satish Gopal, James C. Pile and Daniel J. Brotman
Chapter 18 A Pain in the Bone (pages 143?151): John Fani Srour, Julia Braza and Gerald W. Smetana
Chapter 19 A Diagnosis of Exclusion (pages 153?159): Iris O. Yung, Thomas E. Baudendistel and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
Chapter 20 Making a List and Checking it Twice (pages 161?168): Satyen Nichani, Sandro Cinti and Jeffrey H. Barsuk
Chapter 21 Caught in the Web: E?Diagnosis (pages 169?175): Yasuharu Tokuda, Makoto Aoki, Saurabh B. Kandpal and Lawrence M. Tierney
Chapter 21 In the Face of it all (pages 177?184): Amit Garg, Thomas E. Baudendistel and Gurpreet Dhaliwal