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.
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...
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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...