Hospital Administration Care category: 168 books
by Sonu Dr Goel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This work ushers in a change in the approach of books on hospital administration. To make the text interesting authors have used the case based learning approach. Apart from this many new topics have been introduced in this book which had not been addressed so far in the available books. For example:-...
by Margaret Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.
Any printed material now available on the...
Essentials of Hospital Medicine
A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Hospital Medicine is the fasting growing field of Medicine, and the importance of hospitalists in the delivery of care and success of hospitals continues to increase. The practice of hospital medicine is both rewarding and challenging: hospitalists need to provide high-quality care using the best...
Safer Hospital Care
Strategies for Continuous Quality Innovation, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, about 440,000 deaths from hospital mistakes are expected in 2018. These mistakes are preventable, but the number of deaths has been increasing for the last two decades instead of decreasing. This book describes how to prevent deaths at very low...
Selling Our Souls
The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Ethical medical treatment is an important aspect of healthcare that is affected by multiple influencing factors in, both private and public, medical organizations. By understanding and adapting the components of the health system to these influencing factors, healthcare can have better outcomes for...
First, Do Less Harm
Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients’ hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...
Conflicted Health Care
Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners...
The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital
Let the Hospital Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2008
Doctors need hospitals and hospitals need doctors. Then why do they continue to communicate their needs to each other so badly? Why all the animosity, conflict, and mistrust?
In The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital, Dr. Samuel H. Steinberg, an experienced hospital administrator,...
Charting the Course
Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In Why Hospitals Should Fly by John J. Nance, JD, the 2009 James A. Hamilton ACHE Book of the Year, he advanced a paradigm—a model of what a good, successful, safe and efficient hospital looks like. The name of the fictional hospital featured in that award-winning book could be stated in Naval terms...
by Margaret Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There has been an extensive historiographical debate on the role of Western or allopathic medicine in the colonial context. However, most of the literature concentrates on the implementation and significance of public health measures, mental health institutions and the control of epidemic diseases;...
Distracted
How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control. The result is a web of complicated...
Hospital
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
A warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn,...
Courage to Be First
The Journey of Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles , Oregon Becoming the First Planetree Hospital in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book is more than the story of a small, rural Oregon hospital’s successful attempt to profoundly change for the better the way patients, their families and friends, staff and employees experience healthcare. It is the account of an extraordinary effort that led to a remarkable transformation...