The healthcare quality book
Subtitle: vision, strategy, and tools
By: [edited by] Elizabeth R. Ransom ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ransom, Elizabeth R.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9781567933017
Subjects: Medical care -- United States -- Quality control; Health services administration -- United States -- Quality control; Total quality management -- United States; Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States; Health Services Administration -- United States; Total Quality Management -- organization & administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Healthcare quality and the patient / by Maulik Joshi and Donald Berwick; title: Basic concepts in healthcare quality / by Leon Wyszewianski; title: Variation in medical practice and implications for quality / by David J. Ballard, Robert S. Hopkins III, and david Nicewander; title: Quality improvement: the foundation, processes, tools, and knowledge transfer techniques / by Kevin Warren; title: The quality foundation milestones in the quality measurement journey / by Robert C. Lloyd; title: Data collection / by John J. Byrnes; title: Statistical tools for quality improvement / by Jerod M. Loeb ... [et al.]; title: Physician and provider profiling / by David B. Nash, Adam Evans, and Richard Jacoby; title: Measuring and improving patient experiences of care / by Susan Edgman-Levitan; title: Dashboards and scorecards: tools for creating alignment / by Michael D. Pugh; title: Patient safety and medial errors / by Frances A. Griffin and Carol Haraden; title: Information technology applications for improved quality / by Richard E. Ward; title: Leadership for quality / by James L. Reinertsen; title: Organizational quality infrastructure: how does an organization staff quality / by A. Al-Assaf; title: Implementing quality as the core organizational strategy / by Scott B. Ransom, Thomas J. Firchild, and Elizabeth Ransom; title: Implementing healthcare quality improvement / by Valerie Weber and John Bulger; title: The quality improvement landscape / by Jean Johnson, Ellen Dawson, and Kimberly Acquaviva; title: Accreditation: its role in driving accountability in healthcare / by Greg Pawlson and Paul Schyve; title: How purchasers select and pay for quality / by Francois de Brantes.