Synopsis
Outcomes Management: Applications to Clinical Practice provides a clinical approach for an outcomes program aspiring to improve the quality of patient health through the achievement of best practice. When best practice is realised, cost and length of stay are reduced through decreased complication incidence and self-care improves because of improved consumer health and knowledge.
Integrates a clinical approach to outcomes management throughout the book after thorough introduction of the concept in early chapters.Describesthe process of developing, implementing, and refining outcomes management initiative in a step-by-step manner
Presents outcomes management across the continuum of care (i.e., from ICU and acute care to ambulatory care centers, subacute care, home health services, formal rehabilitation, skilled nursing home care, physicians/nurse practitioners, office systems, and outpatient clinics) rather than focusing only on acute-care managementShowcases different, internationally-used, structured-care methodologies, which address the entire continuum of care, in the appendices
About the Author
Anne W. Wojner, MSN, RN, CCRN, Health Outcomes Institue, The Woodlands, TX
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