Allied Healthcare in Practice: An Introduction to Integrated Patient Care

This new book, Allied Healthcare in Practice: An Introduction to Integrated Patient Care, explores the evolving landscape of the healthcare industry, bringing together an array of experiences from experts across diverse allied health fields and underlying the importance of a collaborative approach between professionals from different specializations, all working toward a common goal i.e., the well-being of humanity.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic and evolving landscape of allied healthcare, providing readers with a foundational understanding of the principles, practices, and challenges associated with integrated patient care. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it addresses the interplay of various allied health disciplines and communication and ethical and legal considerations followed in achieving optimal patient outcomes.

The volume begins with an introduction to allied health sciences and career opportunities and proceeds to discuss the basic knowledge and skills needed for allied health professionals, such as knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the interrelationship between systems and organs in the body, health assessment, diagnosis, pharmacology, infection and its prevention. All these are basic requirements for an allied health professional. The volume covers the skills required for specialized areas, including medical imaging and radiology, rehabilitation and physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition and dietetics, medical imaging and radiology, community ophthalmology, etc.

Also addressed are the safety quality and patient care aspects of allied healthcare, discussing patient safety and quality parameters required while handling a patient, forensic aspects in patient care, inter-collaborations in patient care and ethical and legal issues in patient care.

This volume will be valuable for faculty and students in allied health sciences programs and well as healthcare professionals and many others.