
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Primary Care: All You Need to Know to Manage COPD in Your Practice Fourth Edition
Author(s): David Bellamy (Author), Rachel Booker (Author)
- Publisher: Class Publishing
- Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2011
- Edition: Fourth
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 1859592252
- ISBN-13: 9781859592250
Book Description
The fully updated fourth edition of this practical and concise handbook shows professionals how to manage COPD in primary care successfully and with worthwhile outcomes for patients. In this book, you will find guidance, protocols, plans and tests – all appropriate to the primary care situation – that will streamline your diagnosis and management of COPD.
There have been major developments in our understanding and management of COPD over the last decade and this new edition has extensively reviewed the known literature and latest Guidelines to provide the most up to date and comprehensive picture of diagnosis, investigation and best patient care and management. The style remains readily accessible with key references and guides to further reading.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is an exceptional piece of work and one that I hope will be taken extremely seriously within Primary Health Care. –Lynn Young, Royal College of Nursing
I think that this is an extremely clearly written book, which is clearly going to be extremely important in highlighting the role of primary care in managing patients with COPD. –Michael Rudolf, Consultant Physician, Ealing Hospital
About the Author
Dr David Bellamy is a former GP with special respiratory interest. A trainer for Education for Health, he writes and lectures on respiratory topics and is a member of PCRS-UK, BTS and ERS.
Rachel Booker is a former respiratory specialist nurse with extensive experience of nursing in primary care and medical education. She is a recipient of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s award for outstanding service and is an honorary master of the Open University. An independent medical writer and editor, she has published extensively, and is author of Vital COPD and Vital Lung Function.
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