Monitoring the Quality of Health Care - Issues and Scientific Approaches (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)

As the public in the U.S. has grown increasingly concerned over the gaps in the health care system's attention to quality, and as the health care industry itself struggles for stability in a volatile environment, a historic opportunity presents itself. This book reviews a variety of quality monitoring approaches, identifies critical issues pertaining to assessment, measurement, implementation, and evaluation of quality initiatives, and suggests scientific approaches to put in place a core set of performance measures that reliably identify the value-added clinical and managerial behaviors in health care - for both quality and cost efficiency. The key to quality improvement has to focus on physicians and other health professionals. This book is designed to identify issues pertaining to health care quality and to formulate appropriate approaches for improving quality. It can be used by risk managers and hospital executives to guide their development, implementation, and evaluation of quality improvement programs.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2003
Authors:	Thomas T.H. Wan • Alastair M. Connell
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	309
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-5393-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General
LSN:	1-4613-5393-9
Barcode:	9781461353935

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