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Monitoring the quality of health care : issues and scientific approaches
- Title
- Monitoring the quality of health care : issues and scientific approaches / by Thomas T.H. Wan, and Alastair M. Connell.
- Author
- Wan, Thomas T. H.
- Publication
- Boston : Kluwer Academic, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | RA395.A3 W355 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Connell, Alastair M. (Alastair McCrae)
- Description
- xiv, 309 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Medical care > Quality control
- Medical care > Evaluation
- Quality assurance
- Medical audit
- Quality Assurance, Health Care > methods
- Hospitals > standards
- Hospital-Patient Relations
- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Medical Audit
- Medical audit
- Medical care > Evaluation
- Medical care > Quality control
- Quality assurance
- Gezondheidszorg
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
- Contents
- Health care: an industry in transition -- Historical roots of health care oversight: cost containment -- Basic definitions and criteria for the management and assurance of quality in health care -- Complexities that health care oversight must take into account -- Necessity for multifaceted quality management -- Quality improvement: professional initiatives -- Quality oversight in health care institutions: monitors and checklists -- Quality oversight: use of administrative data bases -- Quality oversight: medical record review -- Quality oversight: patient satisfaction surveys -- Quality accountability: external oversight -- Total quality management and continuous quality improvement -- Approaches to valid quality assistance -- Scientific approaches -- Measuring the quality of hospital care: the importance of identifying principal risk factors for adverse health events and using risk adjustment in measures of quality -- Assessing a quality improvement program: study design, causal specification and analysis -- Identifying the roots causes or patterns of adverse health events: statistical methods -- Conclusion: what must be done.
- ISBN
- 1402071000
- 9781402071003
- LCCN
- 2002030088
- OCLC
- ocm50292689
- 50292689
- SCSB-1269396
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library