Medical administration and management

Healthcare organizations that have already applied Lean thinking to their processes, with the diligence of effective management and strong leadership support, are now realizing the benefits of their efforts.

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy.

This book is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing delays experienced by patients.

Decentralizing Health ServicesA Global Perspective Krishna Regmi, editor Current economic, demographic, and environmental shifts are presenting major challenges to health care systems around the world.

Based on the current climate of our nation's finances and healthcare spending, it is clear that young doctors and medical students are likely to see a dramatic transformation of the manner in which America offers medical care to its citizens over the course of their careers.

This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science.

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A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery.

Despite the evolution and growing awareness of patient safety, many medical professionals are not a part of this important conversation.

Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face.

From the Preface:Collectively, the chapters in this book address application domains including inpatient and outpatient services, public health networks, supply chain management, and resource constrained settings in developing countries.

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Despite its high cost, the US healthcare system produces relatively short life spans, and is wasteful, inefficient and has serious safety and quality issues.

The world's problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern.

This document was commissioned by the Facility Guidelines Institute as the sole reference for acoustics in health care facilities.

Despite effective approaches to prevention, STD and HIV infection rates remain fairly constant.

This book presents some recent systems engineering and mathematical tools for health care along with their real-world applications by health care practitioners and engineers.

This book is an introduction to health care as a complex adaptive system, a system that feeds back on itself.

Recent research in health decision making has shown that many patients, even those with a college education, have difficulties grasping a host of numerical concepts, including percentages and probabilities.

Objective structured clinical examinations/exercises (OSCEs) using standardized patients (SPs) are an efficient means of surveying a diverse range of ability at any point along the continuum of medical education.

The US healthcare system faces numerous difficulties: uncontrolled increases in costs; major access problems; doctor shortages; closing practices; inefficiencies; decreasing revenues; shrinking bottom lines; large numbers of uninsured and underinsured patients; and the upcoming increased demands in service posed by the Affordable Care Act.

This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations.

This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems.

Technology plays a critical role in the management of health care, the system, its delivery and its organizations.

Every day, thousands of people are discharged from hospitals.

This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mimi Mahon, features subject topics such as: Understanding Children's Involvment in Medical Decision Making; Symptom Management at End of Life; Assessing respiratory distress when the patient can't self-report; Barriers to Palliative Care, Legislative Issues; End Stage Liver Disease: Symptoms & Practice Implications; Dying children: Creating opportunities out of a "e;Last Chance?

Comprehensive textbook for the documentation material required in all Physical Therapy programs.

Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry?

Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry?

This book provides a detailed description of how to apply Lean Six Sigma in the health care industry, with a special emphasis on process improvement and operations management in hospitals.

Leadership and management in the context of healthcare is about improving the quality of medical care delivered at all levels.

Globally, the health sector faces significant demands for reform and improvement to meet the needs of the 21st Century.

How do we fix a healthcare system that's too complex, costly, and often unequal?

Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine.

`There's no book like it.

Patient-controlled personal health records are the key to successful interaction between physician and patient.

Providing information to implement a new core healthcare requirement patient involvement Including real case scenarios to illustrate the principles of effective PPI Following the unique Toolkit series format of flowcharts and layouts that guide the reader through each section

This concise guide covers the important angles of your grant application, whether for a health research project or personal training programme, and will help you be among the successful applicants.

This concise guide covers the important angles of your grant application, whether for a health research project or personal training programme, and will help you be among the successful applicants.