The best practice
Subtitle: how the new quality movement is transforming medicine
By: Charles Kenney
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs; Public Affairs
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780786741670; 9781283136976; 9781586486198
Subjects: Health Care Quality Assurance; Quality of Health Care; MEDICAL; Practice; Medical care; Quality control; Physician & Patient; Medicine; Prevention & control; Medical Errors
Description: Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or complications were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds of thousands of patients were being harmed by botched medical procedures. Spurred by the quality crisis, a group of visionary physicians led by Donald Berwick and Paul Batalden embarked on a study of industrial quality improvement techniques, daring to apply them to the practice of medicine despite resistance from the medical community. The Best Practice tells the story of this burgeoning movement, and of how the medical landscape is being radically transformed--for the better.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Betsy Lehman; title: Early history of the New Quality Movement; title: The birth of IHI; title: The Annenberg Conferences on Error; title: To err is human; title: First, do no harm; title: The Cincinnati Children's Triumvirate : Uma Kotagal, Jim Anderson, Lee Carter; title: Virginia Mason Medical Center and the Toyota production system; title: Josie King; title: The learning journey of Jonkoping County, Sweden; title: Kaiser premanente and the future of health care; title: The Holy Grail; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.