Medical Decluttering: A User-Friendly Handbook - Couverture souple

Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe; Sirignano, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9791224314097

Editeur : Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, 2026

Synopsis

Medical Decluttering: A User-Friendly Handbook is a concise, essential guide at the crossroads of clinical ethics, evidence, and real-world workflow design. Aimed at clinicians, trainees, nurses, pharmacists, and healthcare leaders (and written to remain intelligible to engaged patients), it examines how clinical clutter—tests, treatments, portals, metrics, meetings, and documentation—quietly increases cognitive load, cascade risk, treatment burden, and distrust, even when intentions are good. From decision fatigue and cognitive bias to overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and bureaucratic overload, each chapter translates a familiar daily pressure into a practical opportunity for safer care. Drawing on proportional ethics, value and risk communication, implementation science, and lean thinking, the book equips readers to replace reflexive accumulation with structured discernment: speaking in absolute effects, matching time-to-benefit to real patient horizons, and making “not doing” feel like active care through explicit safety-netting. Its signature toolkit—Scan → Sort → Select → Safeguard → Sustain—turns simplification into a repeatable choreography, pairing every subtraction (deprescribing, test stewardship, pathway pruning, digital minimalism) with thresholds, monitoring, “restart if…” rules, and scheduled reassessment, so restraint remains reliable rather than heroic. With point-of-care highlights, scripts for saying “no” with courtesy, case examples, self-check questions, and team-ready checklists, the handbook helps medicine keep what truly “sparks value” and retire what merely consumes attention. More than a manual, Medical Decluttering is a manifesto for essential quality: care that is lighter for the right reasons—clearer to explain, harder to break, more equitable to carry, and more humane for everyone it touches

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9791224314097
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 265
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.es/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg