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Healthcare Outcomes Management: Strategies for Planning and Evaluation

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ISBN-10: 076373389X

ISBN-13: 9780763733896

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dale J. Block

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This title explores the critical assessment of healthcare outcomes management and planning using the biopsychosocial approach of healthcare delivery as the framework for discussion.
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Book details

List price: $219.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date: 3/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 265
Size: 6.09" wide x 8.95" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Preface
Introduction to Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning
History of Quality Mangement-A Starting Point
Basic Principles of Quality Management
Quality Improvement in Health Care-Donabedian's Principles of Quality Improvement
Introduction to Donabedian's Principles of Quality Improvement
The Meaning of Quality Assurance
Targets of Quality Assurance
Components of Quality Assurance
The Quality Monitoring Cycle
Foundations of Quality Assurance
Components of Quality in Health Care
Monitoring and Improving Clinical Performance
Structure, Process, and Outcome
Understanding Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning Using Donabedian's Model
Donabedian's Guidelines for Using Healthcare Outcome Management and Planning as an Indicator of Quality Healthcare Delivery
Donabedian's Classifications of Outcomes
Healthcare Delivery in the 21st Century-A Report from the Institute of Medicine
Introduction to the Report
The Need for Change
Establishing Aims for the 21st Century Healthcare Delivery System
Formulating New Rules to Redesign and Improve Care
Improving Outcomes of Common Conditions
Organizational Supports for Change
Establishing a New Environment for Healthcare Delivery
Applying Evidence to Healthcare Delivery
Using Information Technology
Aligning Payment Policies with Quality Improvement
Preparing the Workforce
Summary
Systems Approach to Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning
Introduction to Systems in Health Care
The Scientific Paradigm
The Healthcare "System"
The Biomedical Point of View
Introduction to Biomedicine
Cartesianism
Empiricism
Western Biomedical Doctrine
The Biopsychosocial Point of View
The Biopsychosocial Approach to Clinical Medicine
Clinical Practice and the Biopsychosocial Approach
Eliciting the Patient's Story and Life Circumstances
Integrating Biological, Psychological, Social, and Environmental Domains
Centrality of Relationships in Providing Healthcare Services
Understanding the Clinician
Focus the Approach for Clinical Practice
Providing Multidimensional Treatment
The Future of Clinical Biopsychosocial Practice
Applied Healthcare Outcomes Management-A Primer on Epidemiology
Introduction to Epidemiology
Areas of Concentration
Natural History of Disease
Epidemiologic Methodology
Basic Epidemiologic Measurement
Epidemiological Observations
Clinical Epidemiology
Healthcare Evaluation Design
Introduction to Healthcare Evaluation Design
Purpose of Evaluating Healthcare Delivery
Four Dimensions of Healthcare Evaluation
Healthcare Evaluation Design and Development
Positivism vs. Relativism
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology
Experimental Healthcare Evaluations
The Randomized Control Trial-The Gold Standard of Experimental Evaluations in Health Care
Observational Healthcare Evaluations
Measuring Patient Satisfaction
Introduction to Measuring Patient Satisfaction
The Assessment of Patient Satisfaction
Measuring Humanity
Humanity and Patient Satisfaction
Quantitative Methods for Measuring Patient Satisfaction
The Eleven Stages of Quantitative Survey Design
Qualitative Methods for Measuring Patient Satisfaction
Measuring Cost-Effectiveness
Introduction to Healthcare Economics
Evidence-based Medicine
Value-based Medicine
The Management of Value
Cost-Utility Analysis
The Benefits of Value-based Medicine
Barriers to Entry for Value-based Medicine
Healthcare Economics and Its Contribution to Outcomes Management and Planning
Economic Healthcare Analysis
The Future of Value-based Medicine
Measuring Equity
Introduction to Medical Ethics
Ethics and Justice
Population-based Medicine in Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning
The Point of Care
Population Health Perspective
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Health Risk Assessment
Demand Management
Disease Management
Disability Management
Endocrine
Environmental Health and Outcomes Management and Planning
Ecosystems and Population Health
Environmental Health Management
Systems Model for Environmental Change
Hazard vs. Risk
Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Risk Management
References
Index