The best practice : how the new quality movement is transforming medicine /

Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or complications were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kenney, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Medical care > Quality control.
Medicine > Practice.
Quality of Health Care
Medical Errors > prevention & control
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Soins médicaux > Qualité > Contrôle.
Médecine > Pratique.
MEDICAL > Physician & Patient.
Medical care > Quality control
Medicine > Practice
United States
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Betsy Lehman
  • Early history of the New Quality Movement
  • The birth of IHI
  • The Annenberg Conferences on Error
  • To err is human
  • First, do no harm
  • The Cincinnati Children's Triumvirate : Uma Kotagal, Jim Anderson, Lee Carter
  • Virginia Mason Medical Center and the Toyota production system
  • Josie King
  • The learning journey of Jönköping County, Sweden
  • Kaiser premanente and the future of health care
  • The Holy Grail
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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