Measuring Health Care: Using Quality Data for Operational, Financial, and Clinical Improvement - Softcover

Dlugacz, Yosef D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787983837 ISBN 13: 9780787983833

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2006

Synopsis

This invaluable guide shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.

About this title

About the Author

Yosef D. Dlugacz, Ph.D., is senior vice president, Quality Management, North Shore―Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, New York. He is the author of The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations: A Manager's Guide to Tools and Programs (Jossey-Bass). He has taught health care professionals both nationally and internationally, most recently in Italy, Brazil, and Sweden; he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Beijing. Dr. Dlugacz is also Dean of Quality for the Center for Learning and Innovation at the Health System and Director of the Julienne and Abraham Krasnoff Center for Advanced Studies in Quality.

From the Back Cover

Written by Yosef D. Dlugacz an internationally recognized expert in the field of performance improvement and quality management Measuring Health Care is a practical guide for the understanding and application of measurement methods in health care facilities.

This invaluable text shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.

The volume is grounded in the transition from a physician-centered, volume-based reimbursement system to a quality-driven, data-centered culture. The book explores the primary roles of performance assessment and outcomes measure in the current health care environment. Measuring Health Care combines extensive theoretical understanding with experience and offers examples from the author's pioneering quality management leadership.

This invaluable text shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.

The volume is grounded in the transition from a physician-centered, volume-based reimbursement system to a quality-driven, data-centered culture. The book explores the primary roles of performance assessment and outcomes measure in the current health care environment. Measuring Health Care combines extensive theoretical understanding with experience and offers examples from the author's pioneering quality management leadership.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787983837
• ISBN 13: 9780787983833
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240