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Evaluating Critical Care
. Ed(S): Sibbald, William J.; Bion, Julian F.
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Description for Evaluating Critical Care
Paperback. This text describes how the integrated approach offered by health services research can improve the quality of care provided to critically ill patients. Although the contributions are directed at critical care the content is relevant to all health care disciplines. Editor(s): Sibbald, William J.; Bion, Julian F. Series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine. Num Pages: 379 pages, 49 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBP; MMKL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 712.
Measuring the quality of a complex service like critical care that combines the highest technology with the most intimate caring is a challenge. Recently, con sumers, clinicians, and payers have requested more formal assessments and comparisons of the quality and costs of medical care [2). Donabedian [1) pro posed a framework for thinking about the quality of medical care that separates quality into three components: structure, process, and outcome. An instructive analogy for understanding this framework is to imagine a food critic evaluating the quality of a restaurant. The critic might comment on the decoration and lighting ofthe restaurant, how ... Read more
Measuring the quality of a complex service like critical care that combines the highest technology with the most intimate caring is a challenge. Recently, con sumers, clinicians, and payers have requested more formal assessments and comparisons of the quality and costs of medical care [2). Donabedian [1) pro posed a framework for thinking about the quality of medical care that separates quality into three components: structure, process, and outcome. An instructive analogy for understanding this framework is to imagine a food critic evaluating the quality of a restaurant. The critic might comment on the decoration and lighting ofthe restaurant, how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
Series
Update in Intensive Care Medicine
Number of Pages
379
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540426066
SKU
V9783540426066
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99-15
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