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| List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Authors and Contributors | |
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| Epidemiology in Health Care Administration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Philosophic Framework | |
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| Focus and Uses of Epidemiology | |
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| Observational Epidemiology | |
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| Experimental Epidemiology | |
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| Preventive Medicine | |
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| Current Issues in Health Care Administration | |
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| The Concept of Populations and Communities | |
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| Managing Health Care for Populations and Communities | |
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| The Role of Epidemiology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Description of Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Health and Disease | |
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| Definitions | |
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| International Classification of Diseases and Related Problems | |
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| Health Status | |
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| Descriptive Information | |
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| Person Variables | |
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| Place Variables | |
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| Time | |
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| Other Descriptive Variables | |
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| Sources of Descriptive Information | |
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| Vital Statistics | |
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| Medical Records | |
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| Reportable Diseases | |
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| Reimbursement Approaches | |
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| Current Procedural Terminology | |
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| Diagnosis-Related Groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Measurement of Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Measures | |
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| Counts | |
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| Rates | |
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| Ratios | |
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| Proportions | |
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| Measuring Morbidity | |
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| Incidence Rate | |
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| Prevalence Rate | |
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| Period Prevalence | |
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| Measuring Mortality | |
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| Death Rates | |
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| Potential Years of Life Lost | |
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| Measuring Health | |
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| Survival Rate | |
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| Health-Related Quality of Life | |
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| Other Rates | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Designs for Studying the Health and Health Needs of Populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Risk and Causation | |
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| Study Designs | |
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| Experimental Studies | |
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| Clinical Trials | |
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| Observational Studies | |
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| Association of Risk Factors and Health and Disease | |
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| Measuring Association in Prospective Studies | |
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| Measuring Association in Retrospective Studies | |
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| Application to Population Health Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Standardizing Population Health Information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stratification | |
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| Matching | |
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| Standardization of Information | |
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| Direct Method of Standardization | |
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| Indirect Method of Standardization | |
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| Risk Adjustment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Medical Management in Population Health Care | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medical Management | |
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| Clinical Effectiveness | |
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| Validity | |
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| Managerial Aspects of Validity | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Impact of Test Information | |
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| Clinical Practice Analysis | |
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| Managing Chronic Diseases | |
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| Managing Infectious Epidemics | |
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| Infectious Disease Epidemiology | |
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| Infectious Epidemics | |
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| Surveillance | |
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| Bioterrorism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Planning Health Care for Populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Planning Process | |
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| Strategic Planning | |
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| Evaluation and Monitoring Population Health | |
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| Data Types | |
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| Community Health Status Evaluation | |
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| Integrated Health Care Services | |
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| Performance Improvement | |
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| Rapid Cycle Improvement | |
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| Statistical Process Control | |
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| Planning for Need | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Population Health Outcomes and Quality of Care | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assessing Health Outcomes | |
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| Health Status Assessment | |
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| Patient Satisfaction and Expectations Assessment | |
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| Monitoring Health Outcomes | |
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| Managing with Health Outcomes | |
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| Uses of Outcomes Assessment | |
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| Benchmarking | |
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| Best Practices and Practice Guidelines | |
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| Application of Best Practice Assessment | |
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| Quality of Health Care | |
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| Statistical Process Control | |
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| Six-Sigma Technology | |
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| The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program | |
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| Quality of Life and Global Burden of Disease | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Marketing Health Care for Populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Marketing and Population Health | |
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| Marketing | |
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| The Role of Marketing | |
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| Marketing the Health Care System | |
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| Market Research | |
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| Sampling | |
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| Market Research Data Analysis | |
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| Patient Satisfaction | |
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| Demand Estimation | |
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| Validity and Reliability of Market Research | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Economic Analysis of Health Care for Populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Evaluation | |
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| Cost Analysis | |
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| Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | |
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| Discounting | |
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| Cost-Utility Analysis | |
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| Sensitivity Analysis | |
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| Burden-of-Disease Analysis | |
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| Example of Economic Analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Expanding Emergency Health Care Services | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Emergency Department Use | |
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| Description of Hospitals | |
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| Time Analysis | |
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| Payment Sources | |
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| Patient Disposition | |
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| Reason for Visit | |
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| Risk of an Urgent Visit | |
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| Quality of Hospital Care | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Population Characteristics | |
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| Age | |
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| Days of Care | |
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| Age and Sex | |
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| Primary Payment Source | |
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| Patient Satisfaction and Quality Improvement | |
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| Managed Care Contracting | |
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| Pediatric Inpatient Services | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Population Characteristics | |
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| Westside Hospital Network | |
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| Historical Utilization Trends | |
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| Community Relations in a Hospital Service Area | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Population Characteristics | |
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| Pediatric Population | |
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| Adult Population | |
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| Population Health Characteristics | |
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| Resource Utilization | |
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| Health Status | |
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| Statistical Concepts | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |