Evidence-based infectious diseases / / edited by Dominik Mertz, Fiona Smaill, Nick Daneman

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2018
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.9
• Soggetto topico: Evidence-based medicine; Communicable diseases
• Soggetto non controllato: Communicable Diseases; Evidence-Based Medicine; Medical
• Persona (resp. second.): MertzDominik; SmaillFiona; DanemanNick
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Contributors vii Preface xi 1 Introduction to Evidence‐based Infectious Diseases 1Dominik Mertz, Nick Daneman, and Fiona Smaill Part 1 Specific Diseases 11 2 Skin and Soft‐tissue Infections 13Douglas Austgarden and Guilio DiDiodato 3 Bone and Joint Infections 23Nora Renz and Andrej Trampuz 4 Infective Endocarditis 37Bahareh Ghadaki and Deborah Yamamura 5 Meningitis and Encephalitis 53Christopher E. Kandel and Wayne L. Gold 6 Community‐acquired Pneumonia 73Mark Downing and Jennie Johnstone 7 Healthcare‐associated Pneumonia 81Jennie Johnstone and Mark Downing 8 Tuberculosis 87Peter Daley and Marek Smieja 9 Clostridium Difficile Infection in Adults 99Louis Valiquette 10 Urinary Tract Infections 107Thomas Fekete 11 Sexually Transmitted Infections 127Courtney A. Thompson, Darrell H. S. Tan, and Kaede Sullivan 12 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 149Ali Amini, Monique Andersson, Ravindra Gupta, and Brian Angus 13 Hepatitis 181Lise Bondy and Michael S. Silverman 14 Influenza 193Ashley Roberts and Joanne M. Langley 15 Critical Care 201Bram Rochwerg and Jocelyn A. Srigley Part 2 Special Populations 215 16 Infection Prevention and Control 217Graham M. Snyder and Eli N. Perencevich 17 Antimicrobial Stewardship 235Alainna J. Jamal and Andrew M. Morris 18 Infections in Neutropenic Hosts 251Eric J. Bow 19 Infections in General Surgery 269Paul A. Moroz and Christine H. Lee 20 Infections in Healthcare Workers 279Gregory W. Rose Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Written by an international team of authors specializing in microbiology and infectious disease, this new edition of Evidenced-based Infectious Diseases presents practical, up-to-date information on the care of individual patients suffering from infectious diseases. Each chapter addresses a series of focused clinical questions addressed in a systematic fashion, including a comprehensive literature search, and a rating of the quality of evidence using principles of the GRADE framework. Evidence-Based Infectious Diseases is the ideal reference work for all those involved with microbiology, infectious diseases, and clinical management".
• Titolo autorizzato: Evidence-based infectious diseases
• ISBN: 1-119-26035-3; 1-119-26033-7; 1-119-26036-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910526641803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II