Quality Improvement Projects in Health Care : Problem Solving in the Workplace.
This book provides a review of basic terminology and offers guidelines to the untrained researcher for carrying out ǹuts-and-bolts' quality improvement research. Fourteen case studies involving actual health care situations help to demonstrate how such a research project can be implemented.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I
- Basic Concepts and Manual; Chapter 1
- Basic Concepts; Chapter 2
- Does the Problem Really Exist?; Chapter 3
- Finding and Verifying Causes; Chapter 4
- Finding Solutions; Chapter 5
- Implementing Solutions and Making Them Operational; Part II
- Cases; Case 1
- Getting Nursing Home Residents Into Physical Therapy in a Timely Fashion; Case 2
- Patients Waiting for Radiation During Scheduled Visits; Case 3
- Late Notification of Critical Values by a Hospital Laboratory.
- Case 4
- Time Spent in Rehabilitation by Amputation Patients in a Municipal HospitalCase 5
- Incomplete Laboratory Referrals in an HMO Center; Case 6
- HMO Patients' Problems With Crutches and Canes; Case 7
- Dealing With Hemolyzed Blood Samples in a Hospital Laboratory; Case 8
- Errors in Filling Prescriptions in a Hospital Pharmacy; Case 9
- A Labor-Management Health and Safety Committee; Case 10
- Nurse Attendance at Mandated Classes in an Outpatient Department; Case 11
- Compliance With Discussions and Documentation of Advance Directives in a Home Care Agency.
- Case 12
- Use of a Reminder Letter to Encourage Follow-Up VisitsCase 13
- Use of an Internal Audit in an Intermediate Care Facility; Case 14
- Use of Data on Unusual Occurrences in an Emergency Medical Service; Appendix 1
- Outline for the Written Project Plan of Work; Appendix 2
- Detailed Tables and Practice Exercises; Background Reading Related to the Cases; Index; About the Author.