Performance Management in Healthcare Improving Patient Outcomes, An Integrated Approach

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Synopsis

This important new text demonstrates a step-by-step approach to understanding and improving performance management in healthcare organizations. It discusses the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, debates topical issues inherent in healthcare performance management, and includes case histories to assist in improving healthcare processes by making optimal use of tools and theories. It also investigates the application of the principles of the learning organization, performance management, and the theory and practice of quality management.

Factors considered include:

cost management and its implications
transparency in healthcare results for all stakeholders
information technology and its potential
evaluation of feedback for further performance improvement.

Combining case histories and examples with crucial theoretical framework, this book is invaluable reading for students of healthcare management, and all healthcare managers who strive to attain better care results.

Book details

Author:
Jan Walburg, Helen Bevan, John Wilderspin, Karin Lemmens
ISBN:
9781134347940
Related ISBNs:
9780415323970
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-01-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2006
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction