Quality Imperative, The: Measurement and Management of Quality in Healthcare
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1860941737 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Quality Is Indeed an Imperative Thomas D'Aunno, Ph.D. This is an excellent book that should be of interest to a range of audiences concerned with improving the quality of health care, including researchers, practitioners in health care, and policy-makers. An important feature is that the book includes contributions from the US and abroad as well. Each chapter deals with key problems in improving the quality of health care, such as the role of information systems and barriers to implementing quality improvement programs. This book also has a useful blend of practical examples and conceptual analysis. For all these reasons, I highly recommend it.
No country is immune from the two fundamental pressures that are driving change: cost and access. The result is an up-to-date compendium of issues and experiences presented by leading researchers and practitioners which should be of interest to healthcare managers and policy makers as well as to students and researchers in the field.. Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. 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? These questions are on th
"This book makes a timely and very important contribution to our understanding of how to measure and manage the quality of health care It will be of interest to a wide range of audiences, including health care providers, managers, and researchers." Professor Thomas D'Aunno University of Chicago "The book gives reason to hope by showing how, in the US and in France, it is possible to move good ideas into practice. The authors show how to take into account simultaneously the various dimensions of quality of care, dimensions which are as often different as they are complementary This insight alone justifies investment