Los autores de este texto tienen treinta y cinco años de experiencia docente en este campo, y este libro refleja la profundidad de dicha experiencia. Los autores has presenciado y estudiado la expansión de la literatura en este campo, y la han sintetizado en este texto. La contribución directa que los autores presentan es la distinción de las teorías de educación que son de aplicación práctica de aquellas que no los son en el campo de la educación ambulatoria. En este texto ellos presentan también un listado de referencias claves en el campo de la educación médica.

This book consists of two major sections, except for the introductory chapter by two editors regarding anticoagulation for portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis. The first section includes four chapters, which provide an overview of knowledge regarding the history, indications, and laboratory monitoring of anticoagulation and electrochemical anticoagulant methods. The second section also includes four chapters, which aim to summarize the current evidence regarding anticoagulation in various clinical scenarios, including COVID-19, peripheral artery diseases, iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis, and ambulatory cancer patients. These chapters are useful for guiding how to use anticoagulants in routine clinical practice, manage patients with thrombotic diseases by anticoagulants, and design future studies regarding anticoagulation.

The development of the Chronic Care Model (CCM) for the care of patients with chronic diseases has focused on the integration of taking charge of the patient and his family within primary care. The major critical issues in the implementation of the CCM principles are the non-application of the best practices, defined by EBM guidelines, the lack of care coordination and active follow-up of clinical outcomes, and by inadequately trained patients, who are unable to manage their illnesses. This book focuses on these points: the value of an integrated approach to some chronic conditions, the value of the care coordination across the continuum of the illness, the importance of an evidence-based management, and the enormous value of the patients involvement in the struggle against their conditions, without forgetting the essential role of the caregivers and the community when the diseases become profoundly disabling.

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

This unique book is the first to bring together primary care experiences from around the world, with emphasis on non-Western regions. Utilising published articles that profile different countries’ primary health care, accompanied by expert commentaries, the book consolidates global primary health care information over the past decade. Profiling the different countries’ primary health care systems and their implementation of primary health care policy, as promoted by WHO and WONCA, the guide provides evidence of how countries and regions can introduce primary health care and family practice to improve their health care infrastructure and delivery. The book is essential reading for policy makers, health educators and academic leaders in primary care and students of global health and provides useful background for those entering or established in clinical family practice around the world.