
Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy, and Tools, Fifth Edition
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The Healthcare Quality Book provides a framework, methodology, and practical approaches to assist healthcare professionals in championing improvement efforts. The book is divided into three sections that cover the fundamentals of healthcare quality, critical quality topics, and key strategies for effectively leading quality.
The extensively revised fifth edition of this definitive text brings together healthcare thought leaders with a wide range of subject matter expertise. Chapter contributors explore the foundation of healthcare quality, share their perspectives on essential and cutting-edge topics, and offer strategies for learning the skills to lead a culture of quality.
New content includes chapters on health equity and disparities in care and expanded content on quality improvement tools, the patient experience and digital technologies.
The book concludes with three well-developed case studies of quality improvement in action that incorporate the lessons learned in the preceding chapters.
The Healthcare Quality Book will assist leaders at all levels in developing a solid foundation of quality leadership knowledge, skills, and tools.
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Content
- Intro
- 9781640553576_FINAL
- FM
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I: Intrdouction
- Chapter 1: Overview of Healthcare Quality
- Chapter 2: Quality Improvement Models and Frameworks for Excellence
- Chapter 3: Variation in Medical Practice and Implications for Quality
- Chapter 4: Statistical Tools for Quality Improvement
- Part II: Essential Quality Topics
- Chapter 5: Safety Science and High Reliability Organizing
- Chapter 6: Health Equity and Diversity
- Chapter 7: Population Health
- Chapter 8: Quality Measurement: Measuring What Matters
- Chapter 9: Value-Based Purchasing
- Part III: Leading Quality
- Chapter 10: Health System Transformation
- Chapter 11: Quality and Leadership: Utilizing Measures to Create Alignment
- Chapter 12: Governance for Quality
- Chapter 13: The Digitization of Healthcare
- Chapter 14: Putting it All Together: Three Quality Improvement Case Studies
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
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