Overview
- Addresses the quality of quality measures in sub-specialties of clinical medicine
- Highlights the historical perspective of quality metrics, the evidence for their use, their utility in the hospital setting and in various sub-specialties
- Includes important updates for clinicians, hospital administrations, and public health agencies to understand quality metrics and their use in medicine
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book covers the historical perspective of quality measures, the context of their existence, their utility, and the contemporary issues related to their use. Simultaneously, it critically addresses the quality of these quality metrics and presents the evidence available to date on the efficacy and the limitations of these quality measures. This text is all-inclusive and is organized into chapters that include the evolution of quality metrics in healthcare, the practical role of hospitals, as well as the practical role of individual healthcare providers in addressing quality metrics. The chapters also include assessment of quality metrics that uniquely pertain to medical and surgical practices, as well as non-clinical quality metrics that specifically target undergraduate and graduate medical training. Finally, the book reflects on the use of contemporary quality metrics and their impact on outcomes, patient care, and public health and policy making. In these chapters, tables and illustrations, including algorithms, will be used to provide systematic approaches to common issues related to quality metrics. In addition, historical anecdotes and case presentations will be used to address pearls in contemporary practice of quality metrics.
Quality Measures is the definitive reference on quality metrics in healthcare and is a valuable resource for healthcare providers, trainees, administrators and public health agencies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Deeb N. Salem, MD
Professor and Chairman
Sheldon M. Wolff
Department of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quality Measures
Book Subtitle: The Revolution in Patient Safety and Outcomes
Editors: Deeb N. Salem
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37145-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37144-9Published: 12 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37145-6Published: 11 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour