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Healthcare outcomes management : strategies for planning and evaluation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Block, Dale J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2006]
Subjects:
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Medical care > Quality control.
Medical care > Evaluation.
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) > methods.
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) > organization & administration.
Delivery of Health Care > methods.
Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to healthcare outcomes management and planning
  • Quality improvement in health care -Donabedian's principles of quality improvement
  • Healthcare delivery in the 21st century -a report from the Institute of Medicine
  • Systems approach to healthcare outcomes management and planning
  • The biomedical point of view
  • The biopsychosocial point of view
  • Applied healthcare outcomes management -a primer on epidemiology
  • Healthcare evaluation design
  • Measuring patient satisfaction
  • Measuring cost-effectiveness
  • Measuring equity
  • Population-based medicine in healthcare outcomes management and planning
  • Environmental health and outcomes management and planning