Health care quality management for the 21st century
By: edited by James B. Couch ; with a foreword by J.M. Juran.
Contributors: Couch, James B.
Publisher: American College of Physician Executives ; Venice, Fla. : American College of Medical Quality
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Tampa, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States; Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States; Health planning; Health services administration; Medical care -- Quality control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of quality in the debate on national health policy / Uwe Reinhardt; title: Medical quality management systems in perspective / John Williamson; title: Quality management in ambulatory care / Heather Palmer; title: Impact of liability litigation on the quality of care / Don Harper Mills and Orley H. Lindgren; title: The era of medical care value purchasing and the role of physician executives / James B. Couch; title: The role of clinical practice policies in quality management / David Eddy; title: Appropriateness of acute medical care for the elderly: an analysis of the literature / Robert Brook; title: Severity standardization and hospital quality assessment / Lisa Iezzoni; title: Emerging medical quality management support systems for hospitals / Jerome Grossman; title: The role of clinical decision analysis in medical quality management / Mark H. Eckman, John B. Wong, and Stephen G. Pauker; title: Population-based measures of the quality of medical care / Philip Caper; title: The use of large databases to monitor and manage the quality of health care / Michael Pine.; title: (cont.) Rationale for a new organizational component of the public health service / J. Jarrett Clinton; title: Managing quality in a changing environment: a hospital industry initiative / Daniel R. Longo and Deborah Bohr; title: Quality management in corporate America / James B. Couch and Leon Warshaw; title: Practice parameters development by physician organizations / John T. Kelly; title: Specialization in clinical performance monitoring: what it is, and how to achieve it / Avedis Donabedian; title: The use of outcomes in medical practice applications of the medical outcome study / Sheldon Greefield; title: Total quality management; title: fad or paradigmatic shift? / Kathleen Jennison; title: The future; title: clinical outcomes management / Paul M. Ellwood, Michael R. Huber and James B. Couch.