Evaluation and Decision Making for Health Services - Softcover

Veney, James E; Kaluzny Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Of Health Policy And Management Director Emeritus Of Public Health Leadership Program Arnold D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587982307 ISBN 13: 9781587982309

Publisher: Beard Books, 2005

Synopsis

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with evaluation of health care services--strategies and techniques for measuring effectiveness, efficiency, improvement etc.

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From the Publisher

This is a book that health services organizations and practitioners have been relying on since its first publication in 1984. Its popularity led to two subsequent revisions in 1991 and 1998. This reprint of the 1998 version, with an updated preface, brings the issues into focus in today's context. The book begins with a framework for decision making that stresses the importance of evaluation in the entire managerial process of program planning, implementation, and control.

There are five major evaluation techniques: monitoring, case studies, survey research, trend analysis, and experimental design. The authors explain the methodology behind each approach. Exploring how and by whom evaluation is carried out and how best to use the results of evaluation efforts, they focus on the measurement of utility; sampling; operations research techniques and interpretation; cost benefit, cost effectiveness, and cost utility analysis.

About the Author

James E. Veney is Professor of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as a consultant to a number of private research organizations and various international, federal, and state agencies, including the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications and most recently the author of an innovative statistical text designed for health care managers entitled Statistics for Health Policy and Administration Using Microsoft Excel.

Arnold D. Kaluzny is Professor of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health and a Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as a consultant to a number of private research organizations and various international, federal, and state agencies, including Project HOPE, the World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Agency for Health Care Policy Research. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles and books including Health Care Management 4th Edition with Steve Shortell, and Managing a Health Care Alliance: Improving Community Cancer Care with Richard Warnecke.

Other Beard Books by Arnold Kaluzny
Managing a Health Care Alliance: Improving Community Cancer Care (with Richard B. Warnecke)
Partners: Forming Strategic Alliances in Health Care (with Howard S. Zuckerman and Thomas C. Ricketts III)
The White Labyrinth: Guide to the Health Care System (with David Barton Smith)

About this edition

• Publisher: Beard Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1587982307
• ISBN 13: 9781587982309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448