Evaluating improvement and implementation for health / John Øvretveit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Øvretveit, John, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care.

Medical care--Quality control.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Evaluating Improvement and Implementation for Health describes modern evaluation methods in healthcare and policymaking, and challenges some of the assumptions of the evidence based healthcare movement

Contents:

Half title; Title; Copyright; Praise for this book; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction: Concepts; 1 Evaluating health interventions, improvements and their implementation; 2 Evaluation tools and concepts; 3 Quick start; 4 Designs; Part II Introduction: Example evaluations - do they answer users' questions?; 5 Evaluating interventions to patients and patient performance; 6 Evaluating interventions to professionals and performance evaluations; 7 Evaluating interventions to health services and performance; 8 Evaluating interventions to health systems and performance

9 Evaluating population health interventions and public health service performancePart III Introduction: Evaluation subjects; 10 Evaluating implementation; 11 Evaluating digital health technologies; 12 Evaluating complex social interventions; 13 Evaluating return on investment and value improvements; 14 Economic evaluation; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2014).

ISBN:

0-335-24278-2

OCLC:

899158649