Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems

  1. 812 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems

About this book

With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems offers theoretical foundation

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781439803332
eBook ISBN
9781439803622
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Health Care Delivery

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Editor
  6. Contributors
  7. Section I. Healthcare Delivery System Overview
  8. Chapter 1. Healthcare: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
  9. Chapter 2. Engineering and the Healthcare Delivery System
  10. Chapter 3. The VA Healthcare Delivery System
  11. Chapter 4. Outpatient Clinics: Primary and Specialty Care
  12. Chapter 5. Designing a Nurse-Managed Healthcare Delivery System
  13. Chapter 6. Long-Term Care
  14. Chapter 7. Healthcare Insurance: An Introduction
  15. Chapter 8. An Integrated Model of Healthcare Delivery
  16. Section II. Performance Assessment and Process Improvement Management
  17. Chapter 9. Performance Assessment for Healthcare Organizations
  18. Chapter 10. Managing Physician Panels in Primary Care
  19. Chapter 11. Lean in Healthcare
  20. Chapter 12. Patient Safety and Proactive Risk Assessment
  21. Chapter 13. Toward More Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice: Relational and Contextual Considerations
  22. Section III. System Engineering: Technologies and Methodologies
  23. Chapter 14. Computer Simulation in Healthcare
  24. Chapter 15. An Introduction to Optimization Models and Applications in Healthcare Delivery Systems
  25. Chapter 16. Queueing Theory and Modeling
  26. Chapter 17. Markov Decision Processes and Its Applications in Healthcare
  27. Chapter 18. Statistical Analysis and Modeling
  28. Chapter 19. Analyzing Decisions Using Datasets with Multiple Attributes: A Machine Learning Approach
  29. Chapter 20. The Shaping of Inventory Systems in Health Services
  30. Chapter 21. Facility Planning and Design
  31. Chapter 22. Work Design, Task Analysis, and Value Stream Mapping
  32. Chapter 23. Scheduling and Sequencing
  33. Chapter 24. Data Mining
  34. Chapter 25. Applications to HIV Prevention Strategies
  35. Chapter 26. Causal Risk Analysis: Revisiting the Vioxx Study
  36. Section IV. Design, Planning, Control, and Management of Healthcare Systems
  37. Chapter 27. Vaccine Production
  38. Chapter 28. Economic Implications of Preventive Care
  39. Chapter 29. Interactive Medicine
  40. Chapter 30. The U.S. Organ Transplant Network: History, Structure, and Functions
  41. Chapter 31. Pharmacoeconomics and the Drug Development Process
  42. Chapter 32. Emergency Department Crowding
  43. Chapter 33. Emergency Department Throughput from a Healthcare Leaderā€™s Perspective
  44. Chapter 34. Capacity Planning in Operating Rooms
  45. Chapter 35. Managing Critical Resources through an Improved Surgery Scheduling Process
  46. Chapter 36. Anesthesia Group Management and Strategies
  47. Chapter 37. Turnovers and Turnarounds in the Healthcare System
  48. Chapter 38. Decontamination Service
  49. Chapter 39. Quality Control in Hospital Clinical Laboratories: A System Approach
  50. Chapter 40. Emergency Planning Model for Pandemics
  51. Chapter 41. Public Health and Medical Preparedness
  52. Chapter 42. Mental Health Allocation and Planning Simulation Model
  53. Chapter 43. Correlation with Social and Medical Factors
  54. Chapter 44. Healthcare Foodservice
  55. Chapter 45. Healthcare-Product Supply Chains: Medicalā€“Surgical Supplies, Pharmaceuticals, and Orthopedic Devices: Flows of Product, Information, and Dollars
  56. Chapter 46. Wireless Sensor Network
  57. Chapter 47. Bar Coding in Medication Aministration
  58. Chapter 48. Clinical Decision Support Systems
  59. Chapter 49. Health Informatics: Systems and Design Considerations
  60. Chapter 50. Privacy/Security/Personal Health Record Service
  61. Body
  62. Back cover