Health Care Outcomes - Softcover

Blancett, Suzanne

 
9780834211377: Health Care Outcomes

Synopsis

The transformation in the health care industry, begun over a decade ag o, will continue well into the 21st century. And the dominant theme in the new millennium is likely to be collaborative practice and outcome s-based health care delivery. A collection of the most current and inn ovative presentations in path-based, collaborative practices, this boo k focuses on the design, implementation and analysis of outcomes for t he heavy volume DRGs. For each DRG, the authors present two to three s tandard clinical pathways, and then show how those pathways can be man ipulated to alter outcomes. Health Care Outcomes covers topics in Resp iratory, Neonatal/Pediatric, General Surgery, Orthopaedic, and Geriatr ic Care. A comprehensive collection of critical pathways and outcomes maps being used by leading hospitals and health care agencies around t he country, this is an important reference for developing path-based c are models, or revising critical paths and outcomes maps.

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Synopsis

A collection of the most current and innovative presentations in path- based, collaborative practices, covering the beginnings of case management and critical pathways in the 1980s through the new focus on measuring and managing outcomes in the late 1990s. Contains an overview section, and sections on respiratory, neonatal/pediatrics, general surge

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