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Author : Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 0866884920
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Joint Commission on
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1599400197
Author : Reneè Roberts-Turner,Rahul K. Shah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030707804
This text will act as a quick quality improvement reference and resource for every role within the healthcare system including physicians, nurses, support staff, security, fellows, residents, therapists, managers, directors, chiefs, and board members. It aims to provide a broad overview of quality improvement concepts and how they can be immediately pertinent to one's role. The editors have used a tiered approach, outlining what each role needs to lead a QI project, participate as a team member, set goals and identify resources to drive improvements in care delivery. Each section of the book targets a specific group within the healthcare organization. Pocket Guide to Quality Improvement in Healthcare will guide the individual, as well as the organization to fully engage all staff in QI, creating a safety culture, and ultimately strengthening care delivery.
Author : Grace L. Duffy
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780873898539
This pocket guide is designed to be a quick, on-the-job reference for anyone interested in making their workplace more effective and efficient. It will provide a solid initial overview of what quality is and how it could impact you and your organization. Use it to compare how you and your organization are doing things, and to see whether whats described in the guide might be useful. The tools of quality described herein are universal. People across the world need to find better, more effective ways to improve the creation and performance of products and services. Since organizational and process improvement is increasingly integrated into all areas of an organization, everyone must understand the basic principles of process control and process improvement. This succinct and concentrated guide can help. Unlike any other pocket guide on the market, included throughout are direct links to numerous free online resources that not only go deeper but also to show these concepts and tools in action: case studies, articles, webcasts, templates, tutorials, examples from the ASQ Service Divisions Service Quality Body of Knowledge (SQBOK), and much more. This pocket guide serves as a gateway into the wealth of peerless content that ASQ offers.
Author : Thomas K. Ross
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781284170757
Written to address the growing demand for Lean Six Sigma expertise, this text provides a step-by-step Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process, that describes how to use the tools appropriate for each phase and provide data where tools can be practiced by students. Applying Lean Six Sigma in Health Care trains students on performance improvement techniques and current terminology so that they will be prepared to conduct Lean Six Sigma projects in large health care systems and support the physicians and nurses running these projects. With a focus on application, students learn and utilize the DMAIC process, by applying it to an improvement project that is carried through the text.
Author : Cynthia Barnard
Publisher : Hcpro, a Division of Simplify Compliance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : 1601466358
Performance Improvement Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers, Second Edition Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ Accurately capture data and illustrate improvement at your organization. Implementing an effective performance improvement program is a constant challenge for department managers. That is why we've created a second edition of our best-seller, Performance Improvement Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers. Whether your goal is to gather buy-in from facility leaders or to brush up on effective data collection and analysis techniques, you need practical, convenient, and useful tools to focus your performance improvement program on meeting the needs of your patients and organization. This updated book and CD-ROM will help you stay confident in your knowledge of quality improvement techniques and data analysis. It uses plain English to explain the requirements and principles of improvement initiatives, making it a beneficial resource for new and existing staff members. Straightforward, no-nonsense approach to PI Performance Improvement Basics, Second Edition will help you and your staff to: Ease new QI managers into their role Demonstrate how to collect and manage quality improvement data Provide a solid understanding of performance improvement techniques Familiarize readers with how to lead quality improvement meetings Complete start-to-finish guide, designed with you in mind This guide is useful for new and veteran staff. It covers basic performance improvement concepts and advanced topics such as how to involve staff actively in quality improvement initiatives, with emphasis on garnering physician buy-in. Best of all, you'll receive: Tools to help you design data collection, perform process analysis, make sense of your data, and present data effectively. Tips on coordinating your departmental PI program with physicians. Self-assessment checklist to help pinpoint areas that you want to develop further! Check out the Table of Contents Chapter 1: Performance improvement as a management tool Chapter 2: Performance improvement planning Chapter 3: Quality reporting and communication Chapter 4: Quality measurement, monitoring, and analysis Chapter 5: Process improvement basics Chapter 6: Involving physicians in performance improvement Appendices: Data analysis tools, PI methodologies, Guide for implementing PI program
Author : Jennifer K. Cowel
Publisher : HC Pro, Inc.
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical statistics
ISBN : 9781578399987
Expert, how-to guidance on collecting and presenting meaningful data A new addition to HCPro's Basics series, Statistics Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers delivers on its name. This logical book and CD-ROM are a primer for any healthcare manager embarking on the daunting task of collecting and compiling meaningful data. Author Jennifer Cowel, former surveyor and manager of The Joint Commission's ORYX Core Measure program, provides expert guidance on how to identify, compile, analyze, and present statistics to measure performance or validate various quality improvement strategies. "We're supposed to be caring for patients, not gathering data. Why do we need to do this?" Statistics are an integral part of high-quality healthcare today-and will be even more crucial to your job in the future. With new initiatives such as pay-for-performance and public reporting on the horizon, healthcare facilities are under increasing pressure to provide valid and useful statistical information.
Author : Gary V. Sluyter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761907513
A practical guide to recently developed management principles, Improving Organizational Performance takes the reader beyond the basics of the TQM fad to the core concepts that undergird it. The book provides a basic reference and field guide for mental health service organizations that are interested in learning about and applying sound management principles. In addition to basic theory, it presents procedures for putting quality practices in place, using examples from the field to illuminate points, and including a complete case study to help organizations learn the quality improvement team process. Improving Organizational Performance is an effective tool for improving performance for managers in mental health, human services, and social services.
Author : A. Gullo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788847007734
Improving standards of care is a real challenge in Intensive Care Medicine. Bettering clinical performance, patient safety, risk management and audit represents the cornerstone for raising the quality of care in ICU patients. Communication is the platform from where to start to reach a consensus in an extremely crowded area, a unique multidisciplinary and multiprofessional environment in which quality of care and, ultimately, patient survival need to be ameliorated.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical care
ISBN : NWU:35556026801233
Author : Lloyd P. Provost,Sandra Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118085882
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes. Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating current process performance, searching for ideas for and determining evidence of improvement, and tracking and documenting sustainability of improvement. A comprehensive overview of graphical methods in SPC includes Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Pareto analysis, and scatter diagrams. Other topics include stratification and rational sub-grouping of data and methods to help predict performance of processes. Illustrative examples and case studies encourage users to evaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and provide opportunity to develop additional skills and confidence in displaying and interpreting data. Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/provost
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : 086688307X
Author : Donald Lighter
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763764494
Amidst a deepening crisis in U.S. health care, Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care provides a results-oriented approach to rehabilitating an ailing healthcare system. With his innovative, instructive strategies, Lighter offers a welcome road map to guide meaningful change in the industry and to equip healthcare managers to meet 21st century challenges. Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care: Principles and Methods provides healthcare educators, leaders, and clinicians with the specific knowledge and tools vital for creating and advocating for quality-centric, next-generation healthcare organizations. This unique compilation of management, analytical, and statistical methods and techniques serves as a comprehensive guide to harnessing todays technology and developing a culture of quality that delivers sustainable, quantifiable value in healthcare organizations.
Author : Ivan Barrick
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763744502
Using straightforward, accessible language, this groundbreaking resource is a comprehensive primer on the most progressive tools and techniques currently used for assessing healthcare systems and healthcare process effectiveness. Typically these tools are embedded in programs such as Total Quality Management, continuous process improvement, process reengineering, protocol redesign, or most recently, Six Sigma and organizational transformation. Transforming Health Care Management presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach while focusing on fundamental concepts. It will thoroughly prepare the reader to design, implement, manage, operate, monitor or improve technology, processes, and programs and is an ideal text for those studying healthcare information technology, operations research, systems analysis, process improvement, or informatics. Features: Chapters cover highly technical subjects using clear and accessible language. Vignettes from the author’s years of professional experience illustrate particularly complex concepts. Focuses on key concepts and applications rather than theory and jargon. Accompanied by a complete package of instructor resources (downloadable Instructor’s Manual, TestBank, PowerPoint slides) to facilitate teaching and learning.
Author : Trevor L. Strome
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118760154
Improve patient outcomes, lower costs, reduce fraud—all with healthcare analytics Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization. Renowned healthcare analytics leader Trevor Strome reveals in this groundbreaking volume the true potential of analytics to harness the vast amounts of data being generated in order to improve the decision-making ability of healthcare managers and improvement teams. Examines how technology has impacted healthcare delivery Discusses the challenge facing healthcare organizations: to leverage advances in both clinical and information technology to improve quality and performance while containing costs Explores the tools and techniques to analyze and extract value from healthcare data Demonstrates how the clinical, business, and technology components of healthcare organizations (HCOs) must work together to leverage analytics Other industries are already taking advantage of big data. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement helps the healthcare industry make the most of the precious data already at its fingertips for long-overdue quality and performance improvement.