Fundamentals of health care improvement
Subtitle: a guide to improving your patient's care
By: Gregory S. Ogrinc ... [et al.] ; forewords by Maureen Bisognano and Paul Batalden
Contributors: Joint Commission Resources, Inc; Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Joint Commission; Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oak Brook Terrace, Ill; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781599405698
Subjects: Quality Improvement; Health Care Quality Assurance; Methods; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care); Quality control; Medical care; Evaluation; Health Care Quality Indicators
Other titles: Health care improvement
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Fundamentals of health care improvement : a guide to improving your patients' care / Gregory S. Ogrinc and  Linda A. Headrick. c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gap between what we know and what we do; title: Finding scientific evidence to apply for clinical improvement; title: Working in interprofessional teams for the improvement of patient care; title: Targeting an improvement effort; title: Process literacy; title: Measurement part 1: data analysis for improvement; title: Measurement part 2: using run charts and statistical process control charts to gain insight into systems; title: Understanding and making changes in a system; title: Spreading improvements; title: Chapter into educators: designing ways for students to learn to improve care.