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Book Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care

Download or read book Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care written by Bruce Rosen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of scholarly articles on the themes of accountability and responsibility in health care and seeks to be the premier book in that field.

Book The Time for Responsibility and Accountability in the Health Field

Download or read book The Time for Responsibility and Accountability in the Health Field written by E. Dale Shields and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Improving Health in the Community

Download or read book Improving Health in the Community written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-05-21 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.

Book Understanding Medical Professionalism

Download or read book Understanding Medical Professionalism written by American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking text on how to deliver the highest quality patient care through professionalism in daily medical practice Five Star Doody’s Review: “This is an outstanding book for all clinicians and professors, indeed for everyone in medicine to help mentor and self-police the medical profession.” "Understanding Medical Professionalism is a 'must-have' for all involved in the healing arts. The book demystifies professionalism, bringing it from a philosophical, mystical concept to a practical everyday set of behaviors. The twelve chapters, in a uniform way, provide wonderful, real-life stories that illustrate the challenges faced by practitioners, describe ways to deal with those challenges, and help develop the personal and institutional skills necessary to provide excellent and compassionate care." -- Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD, FACS, FRCSI (Hon.), The Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Washington "Insightful, practical, and authoritative. Building on their own research and that of others, Levinson et al. offer a comprehensive discussion of medical professionalism from the refreshing perspective of behavioral skills and an enabling healthcare system. Understanding Medical Professionalism has fundamentally reframed the professionalism debate and will likely remain the definitive work in this field for quite some time." -- David G. Nichols, MD, President and CEO, The American Board of Pediatrics "The authors' ambitious goal of providing a framework for the continuum of physician development of professional behaviors, from student through expert senior clinician, has been met. Students will find the text modular and instructive; residents will benefit from the reinforcement of positive professional behaviors and explication of strategies to excel in this competency; educational program directors will find the framework and tools for assessment and strategies for remediation enriching; and the expert professional will find subtle opportunities to grow to mastership of this most important physician competency." -- Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College "The authors offer a framework and an approach to medical professionalism that enable us to understand it, teach it, and incorporate it into our day-to-day lives as health professionals. It is a much needed addition to our armamentarium as we work to align the education of health professionals with the needs and expectations of the society we serve." -- George E. Thibault, MD, President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Book Accountability

Download or read book Accountability written by Stanley J. Matek and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accountability

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia A. Sharpe
  • Publisher : Georgetown University Press
  • Release : 2004-09-07
  • ISBN : 9781589012301
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Accountability written by Virginia A. Sharpe and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error—a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. That astounding number of fatalities does not include the number of those serious mistakes that are grievous and damaging but not fatal. Who can forget the tragic case of 17-year-old Jésica Santillán, who died after receiving a heart-lung transplant with an incompatible blood type? What can be done about this? What should be done? How can patients and their families regain a sense of trust in the hospitals and clinicians that care for them? Where do we even begin the discussion? Accountability brings the issue to the table in response to the demand for patient safety and increased accountability regarding medical errors. In an interdisciplinary approach, Virginia Sharpe draws together the insights of patients and families who have suffered harm, institutional leaders galvanized to reform by tragic events in their own hospitals, philosophers, historians, and legal theorists. Many errors can be traced to flaws in complex systems of health care delivery, not flaws in individual performance. How then should we structure responsibility for medical mistakes so that justice for the injured can be achieved alongside the collection of information that can improve systems and prevent future error? Bringing together authoritative voices of family members, health care providers, and scholars—from such disciplines as medical history, economics, health policy, law, philosophy, and theology—this book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law and medical structure (structures paradoxically at odds with justice and safety) should be replaced by more ethically informed federal, state, and institutional policies. Accountability calls for public policy that creates not only systems capable of openness concerning safety and error—but policy that also delivers just compensation and honest and humane treatment to those patients and families who have suffered from harmful medical error.

Book Accountability and Quality in Health Care

Download or read book Accountability and Quality in Health Care written by Leona Enama Markson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we first provide an extensive introduction to the topic of accountability in health care to set the stage for the growth, interest, and demand for information on quality of medical care. The chapters that follow our introduction are dedicated to issues surrounding (1) the federal government's influence on quality of care initiatives; (2) the contributions of state data organizations; (3) the information demands from business coalitions on health; (4) the information needs of health care purchasers; (5) the impact of accountability demands on hospitals;(6) the compatibility of public accountability efforts with quality improvement programs; (7) the responsibility of physicians for outcomes of medical care; and (8)perspectives on future directions in health care accountability.

Book Health Professions Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 030913319X
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

Book Managing Care  A Shared Responsibility

Download or read book Managing Care A Shared Responsibility written by Joseph L. Verheijde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.

Book Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements

Download or read book Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements written by American Nurses Association and published by Nursesbooks.org. This book was released on 2001 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.

Book Professional Accountability in Social Care and Health

Download or read book Professional Accountability in Social Care and Health written by Roger Kline and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many social workers, health care staff and teachers maintain high standards of professionalism, often in stressful and challenging circumstances. However, research also reveals instances where individual practitioners and managers, or whole organisations, fail to act lawfully, ethically and/or carefully. This book addresses just those instances by providing guidance on how to maintain accountable professionalism in tricky "what if?" situations. Dilemmas are explored using case studies and the mosaic of legal rules and regulatory body requirements for accountable professionalism are also laid out. The book will appeal to students and newly qualified practitioners in teaching, health and social work and their managers.

Book VA Health Care Personnel Act of 1980

Download or read book VA Health Care Personnel Act of 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clinical Accountability in Homecare

Download or read book Clinical Accountability in Homecare written by Eileen L. Dohmann and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn six proven strategies to hold your nurses, aides, and therapists accountable while working in the field. Foster an environment of responsibility and commitment for the best level of patient care. Set expectations for staff. Homecare staff often work in the field with little direct supervision. The level of autonomy can be challenging. In this first accountability book written for home health agencies, the author reveals her successful six-step plan that she uses with her own homecare staff with measurable results. This manual provides helpful tools to set expectations for behavior and standards of practice. It's a key training resource for both new and experienced managers. Perfect for directors/administrators, clinical managers, clinical operations managers, and clinical educators.

Book Effective Communication in Clinical Handover

Download or read book Effective Communication in Clinical Handover written by Suzanne Eggins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on detailed multi-disciplinary analyses of more than 800 recorded handover interactions, audits of written handover documentation, interviews and survey responses, the contributing authors identify features of effective and ineffective clinical handovers in diverse hospital contexts. The authors then translate their descriptive findings into practical protocols, communication strategies and checklists that clinicians, managers and policy makers can apply to improve the safety and quality of clinical handovers. All the contributors are affiliated with the International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare (IRCCH), an international multidisciplinary organisation of over 90 healthcare professionals from more than 17 countries committed to improving improving communication in healthcare systems around the world. 'The authors have created a new and tightly woven systems safety net that will, if implemented, significantly reduce the occurrence of errors resulting from cumulative communication failures.' -H. Esterbrook Longmaid III, MD, FACR, President of Medical Staff, Beth Israel Deaconess-Milton Hospital, Milton, MA USA 'Uncommonly valuable for the rigorous, original communication research it reports and for the careful translation of the research findings into practical strategies that actually improve clinical handovers in the real world of practice.' -Professor Suzanne Kurtz, Washington State University 'This clear, plain English book is an outstanding resource for the training of all involved in healthcare.' -Elizabeth Trickett, (Former) Director of Safety and Quality, ACT Health, Australia

Book Quantum Leadership  Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care

Download or read book Quantum Leadership Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care written by Nancy M. Albert and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Sixth Edition focuses on the issue of leadership within the shifting landscape of health care.

Book Introductory Medical Surgical Nursing

Download or read book Introductory Medical Surgical Nursing written by Barbara K. Timby and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 11th Edition of Timby and Smith’s popular text equips LPN/LVN students with the practical knowledge and skills necessary to provide safe and effective nursing care to today's medical-surgical clients. Now enhanced with new research, techniques, and clinical competencies, exciting new concept maps that help students focus and think critically about their clients, a new art program featuring hundreds of illustrations and photographs, new evidence-based practice boxes, and new NCLEX-PN questions, the 11th edition prepares students to manage nursing care of clients in today's changing healthcare environments and eases the transition from classroom to clinical practice.