| Description |
xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Sect. 1. System Issues -- 1. The Sisyphean Challenge: Health Services Integration / Thomas G. Rundall -- 2. Process Innovation in Health Care: A New Model for the New Knowledge Economy / Mattia J. Gilmartin and David Melzer -- Sect. 2. Bringing about Quality Improvement -- 3. Challenges on the Road to Clinical Governance: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Health Care Quality Improvement / Andrew B. Bindman -- 4. Health Reforms and Quality of Care: Lessons Learnt from Ghana and Central America / Victoria Doyle and David Haran -- 5. Life Cycles in Vivo: Views from the Front Life in the Implementation of a Performance Management System / Peter Buckley and James Watkin -- 6. Benchmarking Bed Management: the State of the Art? An Exploration of Best Practice in Bed Management / Ruth Boaden, Paul Haywood and John Turner / [et al.] -- 7. Quality of Care: Should we Legislate or Educate? The Nursing Home Scenario as a Case Study / Carmel M. Hughes -- 8. Transformational Change of Health Care Quality: Systemic Reorientation - Not Magic Bullets / Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies -- Sect. 3. Variations in Health Care -- 9. Variance in Practice Emergency Medical Admission Rates: Is it Due to Patients, Doctors or Society? / Rebecca Duffy and Harry Staines -- 10. Variations in General Practitioner Referral Rates: Are there Lessons in the Literature? / Catherine A. O'Donnell -- 11. Going Public on Clinical Performance: Lessons from the USA / Martin N. Marshall -- 12. On the Limitations and Pitfalls of Performance Measurement Systems in Health Care / Russell Mannion, Maria Goddard and Peter C. Smith -- Sect. 4. Incorporating User Views -- 13. What do Older People Expect from Health and Social Care in the Community? / P. Kliempt, Danny Ruta and Simon Ogston / [et al.] -- 14. Serving all the Community? The Views and Preferences of Lesbian and Gay Consumers of Health Care / Yaniv Poria, Adrian Coyle and Terry Desombre -- 15. Strategic Health Care Policy and Development for Maori, the Indigenous People of New Zealand / Lynette Stewart, Louise Davis and Sharon Shea -- Sect. 5. Choice -- 16. Limited Access to Alternative Models of Maternity Care in the UK: Barriers to Change / J. S. Tucker, Wendy Graham and Marion Hall |
| Notes |
Selected papers from The Fourth International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management, held in St. Andrews, spring 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Quality control -- Congresses.
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Health services administration -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- America.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Oceania.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007184
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Malek, M. (Mo), 1949-
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Davies, H. T. O.
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Tavakoli, Manouche.
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International Conference on Strategic Issues in Health Care Management (4th : 2000 : University of St Andrews)
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| LC no. |
20010890 |
| ISBN |
075460134X paperback |
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0754602591 : |
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0754622096 : |
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0754601331 cased |
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0754616134 |
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