Synopses & Reviews
The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations
This important book is a practical, theory-based resource on the topic of health care quality management written for health care administrators and practitioners. It offers the tools needed to help managers make decisions, prioritize resources (financial and human), and analyze and improve the care they deliver. The Handbook offers a hands-on approach to specific topics such as the implementation of managerial goals, instructions for developing accurate measurements for evaluating care, the utilization of data as a basis for process improvement, exploration of quality management tools and techniques, guidelines for the complex integration of collaborative services in health care, and methods for effective communication and improving accountability.
In addition, the book is filled with illustrative examples of methods for ensuring appropriate oversight of clinical and quality activities, offers solutions for addressing and preventing adverse events, and explores the important people-to-people interactions that ultimately define excellence in medical care.
Praise for The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations
"The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations offers students of health care policy and management a unique opportunity to learn firsthand from one of the nations leading experts in health care quality. Dr. Dlugaczs passion for promoting the highest ideals of quality in health care should inspire future generations of health care professionals."
Alan M. Leiken, chair, Department of Health Care Policy and Management, School of Health Care Policy and Management, School of Health Technology and Management, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"This outstanding book combines both the quantitative aspects of data collection and analysis with the critical human behaviors that make up a health care institutions culture. Only when these two factors combine do true quality decisions and patient care result."
Stuart R. Levine, author, The Six Fundamentals of Success
"The Quality Handbook reflects the authors combination of technical know-how, years of experience, and the enthusiasm for the complex challenge of their work."
Margaret E. OKane, president, National Committee of Quality Assurance
Review
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The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations offers students of health care policy and management a unique opportunity to learn firsthand from one of the nation’s leading experts in health care quality. Dr. Dlugacz’s passion for promoting the highest ideals of quality in health care should inspire future generations of health care professionals.”
—Alan M. Leiken, chair, Department of Health Care Policy and Management, School of Health Care Policy and Management, School of Health Technology and Management, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
“This outstanding book combines both the quantitative aspects of data collection and analysis with the critical human behaviors that make up a health care institution’s culture. Only when these two factors combine do true ‘quality’ decisions and patient care result.”
—Stuart R. Levine, author, The Six Fundamentals of Success
“The Quality Handbook reflects the authors’ combination of technical know-how, years of experience, and the enthusiasm for the complex challenge of their work.”
—Margaret E. O’Kane, president, National Committee of Quality Assurance
Synopsis
"The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations"— a volume in the Jossey-Bass/AHA Press series for the health services professional— addresses the critical, growing need among health care administrators and practitioners for a practical, theory-based resource on health care quality management. It provides the tools needed by managers to make decisions, prioritize resources (financial and human), and create effective documentation about their efforts.
Synopsis
This important book is a practical, theory-based resource on the topic of health care quality management written for health care administrators and practitioners. It offers the tools needed to help managers make decisions, prioritize resources (financial and human), and analyze and improve the care they deliver. The Handbook offers a hands-on approach to specific topics such as the implementation of managerial goals, instructions for developing accurate measurements for evaluating care, the utilization of data as a basis for process improvement, exploration of quality management tools and techniques, guidelines for the complex integration of collaborative services in health care, and methods for effective communication and improving accountability.
About the Author
Yosef D. Dlugacz, Ph.D., is senior vice president Quality Management for the North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System.
Andrea Restifo, R.N., M.P.A., is vice president Quality Management for the North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System.
Alice Greenwood, Ph.D., is information and research specialist Quality Management for the North ShoreLong Island Jewish Health System.
Table of Contents
Figures and Tables.
Foreword.
Author’s Note.
Preface.
The Authors.
1. The Role of the Manager.
2. Managing Quality.
3. Information and Prioritization.
4. Managing Quality Data.
5. Using Quality Tools and Statistical Methods for Data Analysis.
6. Translating Information into Action.
7. Working with Guidelines.
8. Communication and Accountability.
9. To Err Is Indeed Human.
10. Working Together.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Name Index.