Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this text is an essential guide for understanding how to plan and implement a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces influencing the demand for quality reform, how to listen to the voice of the customer, and the characteristics of quality that customers value most. Students will also learn how to select and define indicators to collect data and how to organize data into a dashboard that can provide feedback on progress toward quality measurement. Finally, this book explores how to analyze the data by detailing how variation lives in your data, and whether this variation is acceptable.
Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance. Provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients with common conditions like asthma or diabetes.
New to this edition is an appendix containing 16 supporting tools, many of which are also accessible online. This edition modernizes the previous ones by centering care on the patient and including the patient in the team.
The Unofficial Guide to Medical Research, Audit and Teaching
Revision of: Evaluation of health care quality in advanced practice nursing / [edited by] Joanne V. Hickey, Christine A. Brosnan. c2012.
A Step-by-step Guide to Enhancing Your Practice's Revenue and Compliance Joe Rivet, Sharon Bolarakis ... published by the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors; JustCoding.com, published by HCPro, Inc.; and Briefings on APCs, ...
This second edition goes beyond the fundamentals of E/M coding and delves into the gray, problematic compliance areas. Author Joe Rivet delivers step-by-step guidance from beginning to end of the E/M audit process.
Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit
Healthcare Auditor's Handbook