Integrated Care for Complex Patients A Narrative Medicine Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Frankel, Steven A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bourgeois, James A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Psychiatry.; Primary care (Medicine).; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This book presents case-based descriptions of models for the inclusive, multispecialty and multidisciplinary clinical care of complex cases. Cases range from  primary care patients with complex systemic medical and psychiatric comorbidity, to those requiring specialty care, to those with potentially...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Introductory Section
• 1. Historical perspectives
• 2. Description of the "outpatient" settings for the cases reported in this book
• 3. Assessment
• 4. Beyond Algorithms
• 5. Measurement of progress and outcome in complex medical situations
• Part II. Case Studies
• 6. Incremental decisions and models for care in complex pediatric cases
• 7. Incremental decisions and models for care in family medicine
• 8. Incremental decisions and models for care for paraphilia with medical complexity
• 9. Incremental decisions and models for care in neurodegenerative disease
• 10. Incremental decisions and models for care in complex neurological cases
• 11. Incremental decisions and models for care with neuromuscular illness
• 12. Incremental decisions and models for care with Medical- Psychiatric illness: the need for integration of care
• 13. Incremental decisions and models for care in complex geriatric cases
• 14. Incremental decisions and models for care for cases emphasizing pain and palliative care
• 15. Incremental decisions and models for care for substance use disorders
• 16. Incremental decisions and models for treating medically complex cases involving end of life care
• Part III. Summary and Conclusions
• 17. Summary of our observations and experience drawn from the case studies presented in this book
• 18. Conclusions and new ideas about care and care delivery for complex patients in outpatient settings, using our experience as represented in the case studies presented in this book.