Research Catalog

Title

Beyond clinical paths : advanced tools for outcomes management / editor, Patrice L. Spath.

Publication

Chicago : American Hospital Pub., [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Spath, Patrice.

Description

xxi, 267 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subjects

• Critical Pathways
• Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
• Medical care > Quality control
• Information Systems
• Quality Assurance, Health Care > organization & administration
• Medical protocols
• Outcome assessment (Medical care)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Taking Clinical Quality Improvement Beyond Paths / Patrice L. Spath -- Ch. 2. Using Performance Measurement as a Quality Improvement Tool / Meg Kistin Anzalone and Michael D. McGee -- Ch. 3. Improving Outpatient Care with Clinical Practice Guidelines / Gail O'Mahaney VanZyi and Gary Goby -- Ch. 4. Reducing Practice Variation in Open Heart Surgeries / Mary Lu Gerke -- Ch. 5. Creating a Multidisciplinary Disease Management Initiative / Lisa M. Zavorski and Barbara Taptich -- Ch. 6. Integrating Geriatric Evaluation and Management with a Multidisciplinary Care Planning Process / Jacquelyn Paynter, Katherine Ambrose and Katherine Dolan -- Ch. 7. Mapping Home Care Services / Sheila Hawley and Bonnie Davis -- Ch. 8. Incorporating Case Management into Home Care / DeAnne Mosher -- Ch. 9. Reducing Length of Stay and Improving Outcomes / Kevin Turley and Kerry M. Turley -- Ch. 10. Selecting an Automated Case Management and Clinical Path Information System / Sherry Lee --
• Ch. 11. Building a Cost-Efficient Path Variance Database / Darice M. Grzybowski -- Ch. 12. Automating Clinical Pathway Variance Analysis / Beth Weber, Linda Ratzlaff and Tom Hearn [et al.] -- Ch. 13. Designing Information Systems for Disease Management / Dianne J. Anderson, Christine W. Freire and Patricia Hale -- Ch. 14. Linking Expert Systems to Outcomes Analysis / H. Edmund Pigott, Greg Alter and Deborah L. Heggie.

ISBN

1556482019 (pbk.)

LCCN

97016430

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries