The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools

by Maulik S. Joshi, David B. Nash, Scott B. Ransom, et al.

This book features the most current information on quality issues, tools, and strategies. With momentum building across the U.S. healthcare system to improve patient health outcomes, this book presents a timely guide to quality improvement techniques. This edition includes new and expanded coverage of: # Standards in healthcare quality # Tools, models, and strategies for quality improvement # Development of a quality measurement approach that includes data collection planning, data analysis, and statistical process control methods # Leadership and strategic planning for quality, including its institutionalization and sustainability # The techniques for creating an organizational culture that fosters quality A new chapter on the quality environment, a new case study takes the reader on an academic medical centers quality journey. The editors have assembled a nationally prominent group of contributors to provide the best available thinking in quality improvement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567933017
• ISBN13: 9781567933017
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Health Administration Press
• Length: 495 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.1"