Profiting from quality
Subtitle: outcomes strategies for medical practice
By: Steven F. Isenberg and Richard E. Gliklich, editors.
Contributors: Isenberg, Steven F.; Gliklich, Richard E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass health series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Medicine -- Practice -- Quality control -- Economic aspects; Medical care -- Quality control -- Economic aspects; Quality assurance -- Economic aspects; Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- Economic aspects; Quality Assurance, Health Care -- economics; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) -- economics
Description: This hands-on guide is the definitive tool for physician leaders and health care administrators who want to improve quality and financial performance. Whether needed to demonstrate the quality of patient care to payers or to market more effectively to potential patients, quantifying successful - as well as unsuccessful - treatment strategies is more useful than ever before. Clinicians Steven Isenberg and Richard Gliklich lead a team of experts - including foremost health care economists Uwe Reinhardt and May Tsung-mei Cheng - charting a course for change that will increase patient satisfaction, create competitive advantage, improve the quality of patient care, and ultimately revolutionize the health care industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.