Hospital Administration category: 168 books
Care Coordination
A Blueprint for Action for RNs
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
In today’s health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent. It’s an effective way to improve quality and outcomes. Nurses are integral to this process, yet most feel their contributions are unrecognized and underappreciated. What can nurses do? Care Coordination:...
by Ruby Parker Puckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions offers a review of the management and operation of health care foodservice departments. This edition of the book—which has become the standard in the field of institutional and health care foodservice—contains...
Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook
Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating...
Malpractice
A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many...
It's a Great Time to Be a Physician:
Building a Healthcare System That Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
It’s a Great Time to Be a Physician: Building a Healthcare System that Works is a call to action for physicians. It is a first-hand account of the changes being demanded of the US healthcare system and their implications for physicians. Eight trends are described that will create a better, more...
All In
Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In the face of ever-accelerating rates of health reform, the ability to quickly learn and adapt is an increasingly essential survival skill. Collaborative learning, as this book illustrates, is a powerful method to rapidly spread knowledge. Yet knowledge comes in two flavors – “knowledge that”...
Design for Care
Innovating Healthcare Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...
by Dr. Randy D. Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
From Wilmington, Fayetteville, Greenville, New Bern, Elizabeth City, Wilson, Kinston, Goldsboro, and many points in between, this book offers a brief look at many of the historical asylums and sanatoriums, as well as temporary hospitals of war and disaster, in Eastern North Carolina. It shows what...
Data Integrity in Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Regulation Operations
Best Practices Guide to Electronic Records Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Data integrity is fundamental in a pharmaceutical and medical devices quality system. This book provides practical information to enable compliance with data integrity, while highlighting and efficiently integrating worldwide regulation into the subject. The ideas presented in this book are based...
Intensive Care in Neurology and Neurosurgery
Pathophysiological Basis for the Management of Acute Cerebral Injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume presents the work of a group of international experts in neurocritical care. This book provides the physician with a quick and practical tool for consultation and it’s dedicated to brain-injured and neurocritically ill patients and provides the physician with a quick and practical tool...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Now more than ever, all health care delivery organizations have a greater responsibility to secure their systems, medical devices, and patient data. Most health care organizations face...
Ambiente costruito e salute. Linee d’indirizzo di igiene e sicurezza in ambito residenziale
Linee d’indirizzo di igiene e sicurezza in ambito residenziale
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Il volume intende fornire un quadro aggiornato sul ruolo della qualità degli ambienti di vita nel garantire e mantenere la salute. Vengono descritte le interazioni edilizia-ambiente, con particolare riguardo agli impatti del settore abitativo e alle possibili strategie di risparmio energetico, e...
by Brigid McCue, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Ob/Gyn Hospitalist, the newest subspecialist in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, has the potential to improve patient safety, patient and provider satisfaction, workforce challenges and clinical outcomes. Programs are exploding across the country, mirroring the growth of the internal medicine...