Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, 3rd Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781610026321 ISBN-10: 1610026322 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 3rd Editor: Gershel, Jeffrey C., Rauch, Daniel A., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 89 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Bridget  Wild,  MD  (NorthShore University HealthSystem) Description This handbook is a quick point of care guide for formulating medical plans on the spot. This third edition updates the previous version, published in 2018, with revised chapters and 15 new topics, most notably those related to COVID-19 and related phenomena. Recognizing that some pediatric hospitalists practice newborn medicine specifically, this edition also provides dedicated newborn medicine sections. Purpose Despite its heft, this book is intended to be a handbook as opposed to a comprehensive text. As such, readers will not glean deeper coverage of physiology or review of clinical reasoning. Rather, the book is directive for making assessments, arriving at diagnoses and treatment plans, and avoiding harm. Audience The book is intended for practicing pediatric hospitalists to consult or seek a second opinion to see if their intended approach is reasonable. The authors are well respected voices of wisdom and authority who have shaped the establishment of pediatric hospitalist medicine as a recognized subspecialty. They know their audience well and write for their colleagues. Features At 108 chapters long, the book covers a scope of topics that is as broad as pediatric hospitalists' practice. While much of the book is organized in bullet points and tables, each chapter aims to provide pillars of care, including diagnosis, treatment, disposition, indication for consultation, and other pearls and pitfalls. An entire multi-chapter section is dedicated to hospitalist practice topics related to challenges of care delivery and resource utilization. Any criticisms of the book would be short-sighted. Making this handbook truly portable in the lab coat would also make it unsafe and unusable or limited in scope. Expanding it to be more formative would make it a true textbook and unlikely to be consulted in daily practice. It would be great to have a clinical image index accessible online to complement the print book, but perhaps that justifies the next edition along with our evolving field. Assessment This book reads much like The Osler Medical Handbook or The Harriet Lane Handbook for trainees, except it is dedicated to inpatient pediatric medicine, as opposed to the entire field of pediatrics or internal medicine. This is not the first edition, and it will not be the last, as we are all committed to better practice and lifelong learning to afford our patients the best outcomes. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 8 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 3 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 3 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 3 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.