Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care (FT Press Operations Management)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0132908662 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 649 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Readers will find specific guidance on improving emergency departments, operating rooms, hospital floors, and diagnostic units; and successfully applying metrics. The authors conclude by previewing the "Hospital of the Future," addressing issues ranging from prevention and self-care to the evolution of technology and evidence-based medicine. . wastes $480 billion annually on healthcare expenditures that don’t improve care. Coverage includes: reducing ER overcrowding and enhancing patient safety…improving OR scheduling, enhancing organizational learning, and responding to surgeons and other stakeholders… improving bed availability, optimizing nurse schedules, and creating more seamless patient handoffs… reducing lab turnaround time, improving imaging responsiveness, and decreasing lab errors…successfully applying the right metrics for every facet of hospital performance. Worse, because of faulty systems – not personnel &ndash
Pointed and direct This book is written for a specific audience, those who can make a change in the way hospitals run. Every person who has sat in a ED waiting room can see the problems. The administrators seem to be blind to it and this book could help solve the very things that plague the entire system today. If every ED had an attached quick care type clinic, and the triage nurse would send those who were not emergent to the clinic, it would save the ED time and resources, and the ED would be only a door or hall away if the urgent becomes emergent. little things like this are outlined in this book, and it would change the way we provide emergency hospita. Jason Brown said Check it out. I have only gotten through a chapter or two but I like how up-to-date the information is. I finished my MBA in healthcare administration but didn't have an operations class. I wanted to brush up on the subject and this looks to be a good choice for anyone looking to do the same.. Mitchell Kent said Excellent Overview. This book provided an excellent overview of the daily operations in a hospital setting. It highlighted the issues facing both the clinical and business management teams using real world scenarios. A great read!
Replete with examples, Hospital Operations shows how to generate principles-driven breakthrough ideas to systematically improve emergency departments, operating rooms, nursing units, and diagnostic units. Whether they advocate a centralized, single-payer system, a decentralized market-based system, or anything in between, such debates tend to abstract away from actual hands on medical practice—a dangerous oversimplification. From the Back CoverAdvanced Operations Management Solutions for Improving All Facets of Hospital Performance: Operational, Clinical, Financial, and Organizational • Provides a concise summary of basic management principles, framed in hospital terms• Describes a practical approach to leveraging management principles to improve hospital practices• Provides a structured framework for addressing the most pressing challenges facing hospitals now and in t