Evaluation and Decision Making for Health Services

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.

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)