Quality health care : a guide to developing and using indicators / Robert C. Lloyd.
Material type: TextPublication details: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2004Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0763748056 (hardcover)Subject(s): Medical care -- Evaluation | Medical care -- Quality control -- Case studies | Medical care -- Evaluation -- Case studies | Quality assurance | Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- Methodology | Medical care -- Quality controlDDC classification: 362.1/068/5 LOC classification: RA399.A1 | L567 2004Online resources: Table of contentsItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Macedonia Library Βιβλιοστάσιο Α (Stack Room A) | Main Collection | RA399.A1L567 2004 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0013088095 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief review of healthcare reform -- The growing concern over service -- Defining continuous quality improvement -- It all starts with listening -- Creating a service excellence culture -- Who are your customers? -- Defining key quality characteristics -- Listening three times -- Understanding the tools -- Combining VOC data with the VOP -- Measurement roadblocks -- The quality measurement roadmap -- Types of indicators -- Selecting a specific indicator --Developing operational definitions -- Developing data collection plans -- Case study: transcription turnaround time -- The indicator development form --Evolution of the strategic dashboard -- Focusing on the vial few -- The role of benchmarking -- A comment on the new business management strategies -- Data versus information -- Research for efficacy -- Research for effectiveness and efficiency -- The debate is silly -- Static versus dynamic approaches to data analysis -- Case study: the monday morning dilemma -- Understanding variation -- Common and special causes of variation -- The consequences of not understanding variation -- What is a run chart? -- What is a control chart? -- Deciding which control chart to use -- Variables charts -- Attributes charts -- Deciding if a special cause is present -- Making appropriate management decisions -- Case study #1: predicting a cardiovascular event -- Case study #2:sampling central line infections -- Case study #3: sampling medicare insurance audits -- Case study #4: tracking patient falls -- Case study #5: pressure ulcer prevention -- Case study #6: evaluating staffing effectiveness -- Case study #7: to flash or not to flash that is the question? -- Case study #8: clarifying the operational definition of readmission -- Case study #9: managing a breast cancer patients coumadin levels -- Case study #10: group b streptococcus in pregnant women -- Case study #11: emergency department fast track -- Case study #12: tracking patient complaints -- Case study #13: reducing ventilator associated pneumonia -- Case study #14: pain management for hip and knee replacement patients -- Understanding the dots -- Personal transformation -- Organizational transformation -- Societal transformation.
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