Communicating Prognosis

by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks

Book Overview

Prognostication of acute neurologic disease is a major task for neurohospitalists and neurointensivists. The family conference raises the delicate matter of how to decide that outcome is indefinitely poor and how to define disability. This monograph is the first book on how to communicate prognosis in acute neurologic conditions. Communicating Prognosis includes useful data on prognosis in all major neurologic conditions and provides practical advice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199928789
• ISBN13: 9780199928781
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"