Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (17 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Issues
-
Front Matter
-
-
Scientific Approaches
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Monitoring the Quality of Health Care
Book Subtitle: Issues and Scientific Approaches
Authors: Thomas T. H. Wan, Alastair M. Connell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1097-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
-
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7100-3Published: 30 September 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5393-5Published: 23 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1097-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 309
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Public Economics, Economic Policy