Medical Quality Management

This new comprehensive resource Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice addresses the needs of physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals for up to date information about medical quality management. In reviewing the key principles and methods that comprise the current state of medical quality management in U.S. health care, this text provides a concise summary of quality improvement, patient safety and quality measurement methodologies. This textbook also describes the current state of global networks and computing technologies, and provides an overview of ethics, legislation, policy making, accreditation and utilization management techniques as it relates to quality improvement. including general approaches and methods, support systems, regulatory constructs, and common outcomes. Complete with case studies, executive summaries, and figures and tables, this is a necessary guide for all executives and medical directors, academicians and students, as well as all physicians and other health professionals in clinical practice.

ISBN 076376034X   Pages 231 ISBN13 9780763760342 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc   Weight (grammes) 399 Imprint Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc   Published in Sudbury Format Paperback   Height (mm) 226 Publication date 26 Mar 2009   Width (mm) 175 Library of Congress 2008048845   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 362.1068   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Ch. 1		Basics of Quality Improvement by Prathibha Varkey		1
Ch. 2		Quality Measurement by Linda Harrington and Harry Pigman		29
Ch. 3		Patient Safety by Philip J. Fracica and Sharon Wilson and Lakshmi P. Chelluri		43
Ch. 4		Organization Design and Management by James T. Ziegenfuss, Jr. and Thomas Biancaniello		75
Ch. 5		Medical Informatics by Louis H. Diamond and Stephen T. Lawless		89
Ch. 6		Economics and Finance in Medical Quality Management by Donald Fetterolf and Rahul K. Shah		111
Ch. 7		Utilization Management by Arthur L. Pelberg		145
Ch. 8		External Quality Improvement: Accreditation, Quality Improvement Education, and Certification by Toni Kfuri and Nancy L. Davis		167
Ch. 9		Interfaces Between Quality Improvement, Law, and Medical Ethics by Jeffrey M. Zale and Mano S. Selvan		197
		Index		223

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