Health Administration Press Management Catalog - Spring 2018 - 6

NEW BOOKS

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE QUALITY
MANAGEMENT, THIRD EDITION
Patrice L. Spath
➤ Instructor Resources:
Test bank, PowerPoint slides, and answers to in-book questions.
The ongoing shift to value-based healthcare has driven change in the practices
and approaches providers use to evaluate their performance and improve their
organizations' clinical, safety, and patient satisfaction outcomes. Now more than
ever before, healthcare professionals must know how to apply the essential principles of quality management-measurement, assessment, and improvement.

A Gateway to Healthcare
Management book
Softbound, approximately 360 pages,
May 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-56793-985-9
Order code: CBCTS- 2356, $85

Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management explains the basic principles and
techniques of quality management in healthcare. Written for students and
professionals with little or no clinical experience, the book focuses primarily on
measuring and improving the operational and patient service aspects of healthcare delivery. Real-world case studies and examples provide an applied learning
approach that helps readers understand how to measure, assess, and improve an
organization's performance and ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality care.
Thoroughly revised with updated references, examples, case studies, activities,
and supplementary resources, this edition includes new content on:

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Strategies for managing quality in population health care
Use of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim framework
Value-based reimbursement models
Patient-centered discharge planning and case management
Improving initiatives aimed at bettering patient health
External regulations and accreditation standards
Lean and Six Sigma improvement tools and techniques
Healthcare application of improvement models from other industries

An excellent resource for students and practicing health professionals alike,
Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management provides readers with the core knowledge they need to shape innovative change in quality management practices.
Patrice L. Spath, MA, RHIT, is a health information management professional with broad experience in healthcare quality and safety improvement. She
is president of Brown-Spath & Associates, a healthcare publishing and training company in Forest Grove, Oregon, and an adjunct assistant professor in the
Department of Health Services Administration of the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, where she teaches online graduate-level courses in patient safety.
She also teaches quality management and patient safety in the undergraduate and
graduate health administration programs at Pacific University in Oregon, and
she is a guest lecturer on patient safety in the healthcare simulation master's program at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Over the past
35 years, she has presented more than 400 educational programs and authored
numerous books and journal articles on healthcare quality management and
patient safety topics.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Health Administration Press Management Catalog - Spring 2018
