Healthcare Systems and Services

The Healthcare program focuses on public health, health systems management, and patient care delivery. It blends theory and practice to prepare students for leadership roles in healthcare services.

27 books
Patient Safety

Patient Safety

Sidney Dekker

CRC Press, 2016-04-19

Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the...

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Building Safer Healthcare Systems

Building Safer Healthcare Systems

Peter Spurgeon, Mark-Alexander Sujan, Stephen Cross, Hugh Flanagan

Springer Nature, 2019-08-21

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the suc...

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Practical Strategies to Assess Value in Health Care

Practical Strategies to Assess Value in Health Care

Craig A. Solid

, 2022

These days, the idea of "value" is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States. While there exist books that detail the technical steps for how to carry out a sp...

Domestic Tourism and Hospitality Management

Domestic Tourism and Hospitality Management

Debasish Batabyal, Dillip Kumar Das

CRC Press, 2022-12-22

This timely book presents a unique collection of "new normal" trends, issues, and challenges of tourism and hospitality management and practices from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. It featu...

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Critical Conversations for Patient Safety

Critical Conversations for Patient Safety

, 2019

The Quality Cure

The Quality Cure

David Cutler

Univ of California Press, 2014-04-16

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation,...

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The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

Peter M. Ginter, W. Jack Duncan, Linda E. Swayne

John Wiley & Sons, 2018-01-16

A comprehensive guide to effective strategic management of health care organizations. Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations provides essential guidance for leading health care organization...

671 pages View Details
Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics

Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics

Michell, Vaughan, Rosenorn-Lanng, Deborah J., Gulliver, Stephen R., Currie, Wendy

IGI Global, 2013-09-30

Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and processes, decision-m...

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Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance

Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance

Sukhmeet Panesar, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Sarah Salvilla, Aziz Sheikh

John Wiley & Sons, 2014-06-16

Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance isa timely and thorough overview of healthcare quality writtenspecifically for students and junior doctors and healthcareprofessionals. It bridges...

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Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research

Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research

Sumantra Ray, Sue Fitzpatrick, Rajna Golubić, Susan Fisher

, 2016

"The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research is a practical, concise, and easy-to-use reference for the full range of clinical and healthcare research topics, while incorporating evidence ...

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Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory

Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory

, 2003

Manual intended for the use of laboratory personnel in developing countries. Cost, reliability and simplicity of the method, along with availability of resources for small laboratories, are considerat...

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Lean Hospitals

Lean Hospitals

Mark Graban

CRC Press, 2011-03-23

Winner of a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Drawing on his years of working with hospitals, Mark Graban explains why and how Lean can be used to improve safety, quality, and ef...

278 pages View Details