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Regulation of medical practice. Evaluation and quality control of medical care. Medical audit

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  • The Quality Imperativeby J R Kimberly; E Minvielle

    World Scientific 1999; US$ 65.00

    Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. No country is immune from the two fundamental pressures that are driving change: cost and access. Every system is experimenting with measures designed to contain costs while simultaneously trying to determine how best to resolve the question of who should be eligible for what services under what conditions. In the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental impact on quality? What, in fact, is "quality" in the world of healthcare? How should it be measured? And how can it be improved? more...

  • Measuring General Practiceby Martin Marshall

    RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95

    This project has resulted in the most comprehensive set of clinical indicators that have ever been developed for use in UK general practice. In addition, it has started to field test these indicators so that primary care practitioners and managers can understand how feasible the indicators are to use and their scientific properties. more...

  • Managing Projects in Health and Social Careby Vivien Martin

    Routledge 2002; US$ 49.95

    Managing Projects in Health and Social Care is designed for anyone who is asked to manage a project but who lacks the experience or training to feel confident in this role. more...

  • The Evaluation Handbook for Health Professionalsby Anne Lazenbatt

    Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 49.95

    This handbook is designed to meet the needs of the growing number of health professionals who are engaged in processes of evaluation in a variety of contexts within the world of healthcare. more...

  • Measuring Efficiency in Health Careby Rowena Jacobs; Peter C. Smith; Andrew Street

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 51.00

    The pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. This book examines the strengths and limitations of two analytic techniques - data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis - widely advocated as means of measuring the comparative efficiency of health care organizations. more...

  • Quality improvementby Kiristinal Guo

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00

    Voluntary organisations are an integral part of community care, and the available research indicates the value of their social support role. However, surprisingly little is known about the forms and functions of this support, or the links to the formal support provided by the National Health Service (NHS), so hampering quality improvements. Therefore, a small sample of voluntary service organisations in one English county participated in a pilot study. This involved the staff and users of these organisations, and a geographically linked sample of NHS mental health professionals. Interview data indicated that the voluntary sector users and staff held similarly positive views of the appropriately varied forms and functions of the provided social... more...

  • Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigmaby Brett E. Trusko; Carolyn Pexton; Praveen K. Gupta; Jim Harrington

    Pearson Education 2007; US$ 69.99

    This is the eBook version of the printed book. The Definitive Six Sigma Guide for Healthcare: Methodologies, Tools, and Metrics   Rising costs are making healthcare unaffordable for millions, and 100,000 people die every year due to medical error. Healthcare must change—dramatically. Many leading healthcare institutions are discovering a powerful toolset for addressing both quality and cost: Six Sigma. In this hands-on, start-to-finish guidebook, four leading experts introduce Six Sigma from the unique standpoint of the healthcare professional, showing exactly how to implement it in real-world environments.   Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors offer step-by-step methodologies, tools, and metrics—all... more...

  • Quality By Designby Eugene C. Nelson; Paul B. Batalden; Marjorie M. Godfrey

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 90.00

    Quality by Design reflects the research and applied training conducted at Dartmouth Medical School under the leadership of Gene Nelson, Paul Batalden, and Marjorie Godfrey. The book includes the research results of high-performing clinical microsystems, illustrative case studies that highlight individual clinical programs, guiding principles that are easily applied, and tools, techniques, and methods that can be adapted by clinical practices and interdisciplinary clinical teams. The authors describe how to develop microsystems that can attain peak performance through active engagement of interdisciplinary teams in learning and applying improvement science and measurement; explore the essence of leadership for clinical Microsystems; show... more...

  • Quality of Careby Bengoa R.; Kawar R.; Key P; Leatherman S.; Massoud R.

    World Health Organization 2006; US$ 13.50

    This guide provides decision-makers and managers at country level with a systematic process which will allow them to design and implement effective interventions to promote quality in health systems. It focuses particular attention on people who have a strategic responsibility for quality so that they can create an enabling environment for all the quality improvement initiatives being undertaken at the medical care level and reinforce their chances of success and sustainability. It has been designed to assist self-assessment and serve as a discussion guide so that decision-makers and interested parties in the quality arena can work together on finding answers for their own setting. more...

  • Health Systems Performance Assessmentby C.J.L. Murray; D. Evans

    World Health Organization 2003; US$ 54.00

    This volume reports on a large body of work led by the World Health Organization that is intended to strengthen the foundations for evidence-based policies aimed at health systems development. This has included work to develop a common conceptual framework for health systems performance assessment, to encourage the development of tools to measure its components, and to collaborate with countries in applying these tools to measure and then to improve health systems performance. It began with the enunciation of a framework that specified a parsimonious set of key goals to which health systems contribute, and the first set of figures on goal attainment and health system efficiency in countries that were Members of the Organization was published... more...