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Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Quality Innovation, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018. These mistakes are preventable, but the number of deaths has been increasing for the last two decades instead of decreasing. This book describes how to prevent deaths at very low...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Organizational cultures and subcultures have played vital roles in the quality care of the healthcare industry in both the public and private forms of medical practice and education, leaving opportunity for the integration of principles focused on cross-cultural teamwork. Cross-Cultural Training and...
by Anthony Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Partnership working is recognised as the most effective way of improving social care services, and a non-negotiable part of the government’s aim is to provide a seamless care service. However, for students undertaking placements or for more experienced professionals moving to a different service...
by John E. McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider’s deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary—and extraordinarily ambitious—legislative effort to reform the nation’s health care system. Dr. John...
by V A Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Your healthcare provider and you are together making an important medical decision. Who should influence this decision? Should it be an insurance provider? Should it be a politician? Should it be a lawyer? Should it be a bureaucrat? Should it be the federal or state government? Who should choose your...
The Best Healthcare for Less
Save Money on Chronic Medical Conditions and Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
You can afford the care you need.
If you're one of the millions who suffer from medical conditions such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes, you know that these illnesses can, over time, cause extreme financial hardship. In this timely, thorough resource, Dr. David Nganele helps you identify...
Responding to Physical and Sexual Abuse in Women with Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Disorders
Program Building
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn from the experiences of these program sites to develop better services for women with co-occurring disorders and histories of violence
This book explores the efforts of the Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study to address the significant lack of appropriate services for women...
Why Hospitals Should Fly
The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital? Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.
So what does it take to...
By the Bedside of the Patient
Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and...
The Reform of Child Care Law
A Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide to the legislation for all professionals practising in this area.
It's Enough to Make You Sick
The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.
by John Appleby, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health.
Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomes
Includes real life examples...
The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts
Examining the Facts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This is the first reference book to provide a detailed assessment of the Affordable Care Act, explaining the realities and myths surrounding one of the most divisive political struggles in recent U.S. history.
• Uses nonpartisan sources of information that include studies and reports to assess...
Profit Is Not the Cure
A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.
More than thirty years later, the same battle is...