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Quality in health care : strategic issues in health care management / edited by Huw T.O. Davies, Manouche Tavakoli and Mo Malek.
LIBRA RA399.A1 Q83 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management (4th : 2000 : University of St. Andrews)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Quality control--Congresses.
- Medical care.
- Health services administration--Congresses.
- Health services administration.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Medical care--Quality control.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services Administration.
- Medical Subjects:
- Quality of Health Care.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services Administration.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]
- Contents:
- Section 1 System Issues 1
- 1 The Sisyphean Challenge: Health Services Integration / Thomas G. Rundall 3
- 2 Process Innovation in Health Care: A New Model for the New Knowledge Economy / Mattia J. Gilmartin, David Melzer 17
- Section 2 Bringing About Quality Improvement 27
- 3 Challenges on the Road to Clinical Governance: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Health Care Quality Improvement / Andrew B. Bindman 29
- 4 Health Reforms and Quality of Care: Lessons Learnt from Ghana and Central America / Victoria Doyle, David Haran 37
- 5 Life Cycles in Vivo: Views from the Front Line in the Implementation of a Performance Management System / Peter Buckley, James Watkin 44
- 6 Benchmarking Bed Management: the State of the Art? An Exploration of Best Practice in Bed Management / Ruth Boaden, Paul Haywood, John Turner, Mary Massey 58
- 7 Quality of Care: Should we Legislate or Educate? The Nursing Home Scenario as a Case Study / Carmel M. Hughes 79
- 8 Transformational Change of Health Care Quality: Systemic Reorientation-Not Magic Bullets / Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies 91
- Section 3 Variations in Health Care 105
- 9 Variance in Practice Emergency Medical Admission Rates: Is it Due to Patients, Doctors or Society? / Rebecca Duffy, Harry Staines 107
- 10 Variations in General Practitioner Referral Rates: Are there Lessons in the Literature? / Catherine A. O'Donnell 118
- 11 Going Public on Clinical Performance: Lessons from the USA / Martin N. Marshall 144
- 12 On the Limitations and Pitfalls of Performance Measurement Systems in Health Care / Russell Mannion, Maria Goddard, Peter C. Smith 158
- Section 4 Incorporating User Views 171
- 13 What do Older People Expect from Health and Social Care in the Community? / P. Kliempt, Danny Ruta, Simon Ogston, Marion E.T. McMurdo 173
- 14 Serving all the Community? The Views and Preferences of Lesbian and Gay Consumers of Health Care / Yaniv Poria, Adrian Coyle, Terry Desombre 184
- 15 Strategic Health Care Policy and Development for Maori, the Indigenous People of New Zealand / Lynette Stewart, Louise Davis, Sharon Shea 198
- Section 5 Choice 213
- 16 Limited Access to Alternative Models of Maternity Care in the UK: Barriers to Change / J.S. Tucker, Wendy Graham, Marion Hall 215.
- Notes:
- Selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, held at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in spring 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0754616134
- OCLC:
- 46650585
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