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Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Simple Steps to Fast, Affordable, and Flawless Healthcareby Jay Arthur
McGraw-Hill 2011; US$ 40.00Proven strategies for applying Lean Six Sigma to the healthcare industry—and getting practical, sustainable results in as few as five days Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals explains how to use tested LSS methods and tools to achieve the goals of better, faster, and cheaper healthcare. These strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge—examining key aspects of patient flow and quality—and also follow the trail of billing and collections to discover major leaks in cash flow. The book emphasizes both the clinical and operational sides, so the “three demons of healthcare”—delay, defects, and deviation—can be reduced. Using Lean Six... more...
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisisby Clayton Christensen; Jerome H. Grossman; Jason M.D. Hwang
McGraw-Hill 2008; US$ 35.00A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendaryleader in innovation . . . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription , a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improvehealth care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers in the field—Dr.... more...
Effective Documentation for Physical Therapy Professionals, Second Editionby Eric Shamus; Debra Stern
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. 2011; US$ 55.00A comprehensive textbook covering every aspect of the documentation process required in physical therapy practice Effective Documentation for Physical Therapy Professionals gives physical therapy students a solid understanding of the professional guidelines, codes, and methodology needed to provide expert documentation within their field. Filled with sample forms and documentation content, the book covers all major aspects of the subject, including reimbursement and billing, coding, legalities, PT and PTA communication, and quality assurance. Features Incorporates current APTA terminology and all pertinent professional association regulations Includes numerous sample forms and documents Contains a wealth of examples... more...
Health Promotionby Jackie Green; Keith Tones
Sage Publications Ltd. 2010; US$ 64.00Beginning with a critical appraisal of the concept itself, the second edition of Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies outlines models for defining `health promotion' and sets out the factors involved in planning health promotion programmes that work. Locating the principles and strategies of health promotion within an emerging sphere of multidisciplinary health, the authors show how these can be applied within a range of contexts and settings. In an attempt to bridge the gap that persists between ideological perspectives and practical implementations, they delve beyond the rhetoric of empowerment and show how it can be incorporated into practice. Focusing particularly on the synergistic relationship between policy and education, the... more...
Dying Processby Julia Lawton
Routledge 2000; US$ 51.95Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death. more...
My Story of the Warby Mary A. Livermore
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Mary Ashton Livermore was more than just a nurse for the Union Army. She was an educator, a writer and suffragette. When named co-director of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, Livermore not only tended the wounded, she raised money and supplies for the Sanitary Commission and edited their monthly bulletins, using these to communicate with its four thousand Aid Societies. During her official travels, she gathered facts and personal stories of individual soldiers and sent these to her husband along with her official reports. He published both, with the ?war sketches,? as she called them. Mrs. Livermore?s husband saved all her letters, bulletins, stories and articles. She had a habit of destroying her papers once... more...
Managerialism and Nursingby Michael Traynor
Routledge 1999; US$ 59.95Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole. Using an innovative study of nurses conducted by the Royal College of Nursing, Michael Traynor analyses the relationship between nurses and their managers, looking at the contrasting ways in which each group argues its case and presents its identity. more...
Changing the U.S. Health Care Systemby Ronald M. Andersen; Thomas H. Rice; Gerald F. Kominski
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 80.00Researchers working in health policy from a wide range of perspectives summarize existing empirical research on their specialties and discuss research and management strategies that can be used to address current problems. Those whose chapters were carried over from the first edition (no date noted) were asked to emphasize developments since then. The 20 studies cover access, costs, quality, special populations, and directions for change. more...
Handbook for the New Health Care Managerby Donald N. Lombardi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 78.00It has been nearly a decade since the first edition of the Handbook for the New Health Care Manager was published. During that time, dramatic changes have taken place in the health care industry and particularly in health care management. Written as a hands-on guide for both novice and seasoned managers, the Handbook for the New Health Care Manager, Second Edition offers a wealth of practical strategies, procedures, and methods that are designed to meet the myriad challenges of today's health care marketplace. This thoroughly revised and updated edition features new information on numerous topics. more...
Organizational Ethics in Health Careby Philip J. Boyle; Edwin R. DuBose; Stephen J. Ellingson; David E. Guinn; David B. McCurdy
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 85.00This comprehensive and much-needed resource helps health care ethicists to meet the demand of challenges such as managed care, medical technology, and patient activism. Through a review of core principles and a rich selection of cases, practitioners and students will learn to apply ethics in the day-to-day administration of health care organizations. The authors are from the Park Ridge Center, the nationally acclaimed consulting and research firm. more...