Quality Health Care A Guide to Developing and Using Indicators

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Author: Robert Lloyd, PhD
Affiliation: Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication Date: 2019
ISBN 10: 1284023079
ISBN 13: 9781284023077
eISBN: 9781284023084
Edition: 2nd
Description:
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. Case studies are provided to demonstrate how quality measurement can be applied to clinical as well as operational aspects of healthcare delivery.
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