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Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma
Pearson Education 2007; US$ 69.99This 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... more...
Quality then, quality now
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00This e-book presents a retrospective look at quality initiatives in healthcare over the past 20 years, and the impact they have had on the effective management of healthcare organisations. It also considers these initiatives in the context of new quality methods and measures, and asks whether quality assurance is still a major issue within healthcare... more...
Quality, Risk and Control in Health Care
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 231.00Explores how the concept of risk management has been introduced into the public sector and how this has impacted on the definition of governance in the National Health Service. This book addresses the concept of controls assurance by placing it in the context of developments both in local health care management and central government. more...
Health Care Evaluation
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 210.00Evaluation of health care can help determine which services should be provided and how they should best be organized and delivered. This book analyses health care interventions, from specific treatments to delivery systems, in terms of four key dimensions namely effectiveness; efficiency; humanity; and, equity. more...
Clinical governance - early studies
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00Risikomanagement in der operativen Medizin (German Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 47.99Ungefähr die Hälfte aller nachgewiesenen Behandlungsfehler (7% pro Jahr) in Deutschland wäre vermeidbar, wenn Entscheidungsträger mögliche Schadensquellen frühzeitig analysieren würden. Ein Risikomanagementsystem ist daher das dringend notwendige Werkzeug für den Klinikbetrieb. Ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden mit umfassendem Ein- und Überblick zum... more...
Reliability Technology, Human Error, and Quality in Health Care
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 96.95The effective functioning of a health care system requires the successful melding of technology with human factors, and an emphasis on quality. This book aims to combine all these three topics into a single volume. It includes chapters on mathematical concepts and reliability technology, human error, and quality. more...
Disease Management
Pharmaceutical Press 2008; US$ 80.00Disease Management is a comprehensive introduction to the management of diseases which are commonly encountered in, but not exclusive to, primary care. Pharmacology is considered in the context of clinical practice and a holistic approach is taken to patient care to include lifestyle issues, concurrent disease and treatment and the use of alternative... more...
The Best Practice
PublicAffairs 2010; US$ 15.95In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or ?complications? were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of ?quality improvement? used at Toyota and NASA, and to apply them to the practice of medicine. This... more...









