Description
| Product ID: | 9781498744461 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Improving Healthcare |
| Subtitle: | A Handbook for Practitioners |
| Authors: | Author: Elaine Maxwell, Lesley Baillie |
| Page Count: | 178 |
| Subjects: | Medicine: general issues, Medicine: general issues, Neonatal medicine, Midwifery, Medical study and revision guides and reference material, Neonatal medicine, Midwifery, Medical study & revision guides & reference material |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Good intentions to do our best in healthcare are not enough. Healthcare professionals need to know how to close the gap between best evidence and practice, by understanding and applying quality improvement principles and processes. As an essential guide for healthcare practitioners at any level who are new to service improvement, Improving Healthcare includes practical examples and case studies of healthcare improvements that illustrate the concepts discussed. Good intentions to do our best in healthcare are not enough. Healthcare professionals need to know how to close the gap between best evidence and practice, by understanding and applying quality improvement principles and processes. Improving Healthcare is a practical guide, providing healthcare staff with the knowledge and skills that enable them to implement, evaluate and disseminate a quality improvement project in their own workplace. With a comprehensive coverage, chapters cover the history, selection and application of quality improvement philosophies and methods in clinical healthcare at team, unit, organisational and system levels. The book also considers social processes of implementation as well as technical aspects of measuring and improving quality. As an essential guide for healthcare practitioners at any level who are new to service improvement, Improving Healthcare includes practical examples and case studies of healthcare improvements that illustrate the concepts discussed. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-04-13 |
