Download or read book Medicare written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care for the elderly American is among our nation's more pressing social issues. Our society wishes to ensure quality health care for all older people, but there is growing concern about our ability to maintain and improve quality in the face of efforts to contain health care costs. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance answers the U.S. Congress' call for the Institute of Medicine to design a strategic plan for assessing and assuring the quality of medical care for the elderly. This book presents a proposed strategic plan for improving quality assurance in the Medicare program, along with steps and timetables for implementing the plan by the year 2000 and the 10 recommendations for action by Congress. The book explores quality of careâ€"how it is defined, measured, and improvedâ€"and reviews different types of quality problems. Major issues that affect approaches to assessing and assuring quality are examined. Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance will be immediately useful to a wide audience, including policymakers, health administrators, individual providers, specialists in issues of the older American, researchers, educators, and students.
Download or read book The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians Inc written by American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance provides extensive source materials on quality assurance, including results of focus groups with the elderly and practicing physicians, findings from public hearings on quality of care for the elderly, and many exhibits from site visits and the literature on quality measurements and assurance tools. The current Medicare peer review organization program and related hospital accreditation efforts are comprehensively described as background for the recommendations in Volume I of this report. Like the companion volume, this substantial book will be a valuable reference document for all groups concerned with quality of health care and the elderly.
Download or read book Quality Assurance and Utilization Review written by Richard B. Tobias and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study Guide in Quality Assurance and Utilization Review written by Robert B. Tobias and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book QUALITY ASSURANCE AND UTILIZATION REVIEW CURRENT READINGS IN CONCEPT AND PRACTICE written by RB TOBIAS (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICAN BOARD OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND UTILIZATION REVIEW PHYSICIANS.
Download or read book Utilization Review and Quality Assurance written by Susan Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilization management (UM) has become a strong trend in health care cost containment. Under UM, some decisions are not strictly made by the doctor and patient alone. Instead, they are now checked by a reviewer reporting to an employer or other paying party who asks whether or not the proposed type or location of care is medically necessary or appropriate. This book presents current findings about how UM is faring in practice and how it compares with other cost containment approaches, with recommendations for improving UM program administration and clinical protocols and for conducting further research.
Download or read book Quality Assurance Utilization Review Risk Management written by James T. Ziegenfuss and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide for the Utilization Review Coordinator in a Quality Assurance Program written by Hospital Research and Educational Trust. Center for Educational Innovation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Point of Care Ultrasound E book written by Nilam J Soni and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With portable, hand-carried ultrasound devices being more frequently implemented in medicine today, Point-of-Care Ultrasound will be a welcome resource for any physician or health care practitioner looking to further their knowledge and skills in point-of-care ultrasound. This comprehensive, portable handbook offers an easy-access format that provides comprehensive, non-specialty-specific guidance on this ever-evolving technology. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Access all the facts with focused chapters covering a diverse range of topics, as well as case-based examples that include ultrasound scans. Understand the pearls and pitfalls of point-of-care ultrasound through contributions from experts at more than 30 institutions. View techniques more clearly than ever before. Illustrations and photos include transducer position, cross-sectional anatomy, ultrasound cross sections, and ultrasound images.
Download or read book Improving Quality written by Claire Gavin Meisenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upgrade your QA effort into a state-of-the-art program of continuous quality improvement! This practical resource shows you how. Improving Quality provides step-by-step instructions for assessing programs and designing, implementing, and evaluating a new program that meets current standards as well as the needs of individual organizations and patients. it includes models for quality programs in seven practice areas, and dozens of ready-to-use charts, forms, and questionnaires.
Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Download or read book Survey of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Mechanisms in Prepaid Group Practice Plans and Medical Care Foundations written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care written by Avedis Donabedian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avedis Donabedian's name is synonymous with quality of medical care. He unraveled the mystery behind the concept by defining it in clear operational terms and provided detailed blueprints for both its measurement(known as quality assessment) and its improvement(known as quality assurance). Many before him claimed that quality couldn't be defined in concrete objective terms. He demonstrated that quality is an attribte of a system which he called structure, a set of organized activities whihc he called process, and an outcome which results from both. In this book Donabedian tells the full story of quality assessment and assurance in simple, clear terms. He defines the meaning of quality, explicates its components, and provides clear and systematic guides to its assessment and enhancement. His style is lucid, succinct, systematic and yet personal, almost conversational.
Download or read book Quality Assurance and Utilization Review written by American College of Physicians and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Quality Assurance written by Jesus J. Pena and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
