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  • Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation

    by John Brazier, Julie Ratcliffe, Aki Tsuchiya, Joshua Salomon ...
    There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions. Difficult choices have to be made, and economic evaluation offers a systematic and transparent process for informing such choices. A key component of economic evaluation is how to value the benefits of health care in a way that permits ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

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  • Managing the Myths of Health Care

    Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
    “Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health

    Edited by Joachim P Sturmberg, Carmel Martin ...
    This book is an introduction to health care as a complex adaptive system, a system that feeds back on itself. The first section introduces systems and complexity theory from a science, historical, epistemological, and technical perspective, describing the principles and mathematics. Subsequent sections build on the health applications of systems science theory, from human physiology to medical ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

    Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment

    by Rocco Palumbo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient and system-patient communication, and patient-centered care in the empowerment process. Models of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents

    A New Dilemma for the 21st Century

    Edited by I.W. Fong, Kenneth Alibek ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of b- logical warfare and bioterrorism. Biological warfare agents are de?ned as “living org- isms, whatever their nature, or infected material derived from them, which are used for h- tile purposes and intended to cause disease ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Jonas' Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System, 8th Edition

    by Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH, Benjamin Goldsteen, MBA, Raymond Goldsteen ...
    Praise for the Seventh Edition:There are many books on the U.S. healthcare system, but few have the longevity of this one. It is easy to read and straightforward in its approach to difficult subjects such as the rise of the Tea Party and how that movement has impacted healthcare. This update is certainly needed as the landscape has changed dramatically since the previous edition was published ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Population Health Management in Health Care Organizations

    Edited by Timothy R. Huerta, Ann Scheck McAlearney, Jennifer L. Hefner ...
    Series Book 16 - Advances in Health Care Management
    The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations. While health care policy has explored this domain before, notably in Health Maintenance Organizations, the current efforts to create Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent a broader effort to move ... Read more

    $170.59 USD

  • A Leadership Journey in Health Care

    Virginia Mason's Story

    by Charles Kenney ...
    Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability. It has achieved world-class levels of patient satisfaction and has been honored as one of the safest hospitals in the country.A Leadersh ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection

    by Nicholas Graves, Kate Halton, William Jarvis ...
    Reasons for Writing This Book The published literature on the economic appraisal of healthcare acquired infection (HAI) is described by phrases such as: “With so many virtues of the cost-benefit approach identified, it is perhaps puzzling why greater use of economic appraisal has not been made in the area of infection control” [1] “Clinicians should partner with economists and policy analysts to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Electronic Health Record

    A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain

    by Alexander Scarlat, MD ...
    An accessible primer, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain introduces the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain. The first part of the book provides a top-down decomposition along two main paths: data in motion workflows, processes, activities, and tas ... Read more

    $140.00 USD

  • Values-Based Commissioning of Health and Social Care

    by Christopher Heginbotham, OBE ...
    Series series Values-Based Practice
    Health and social care commissioning is a values-driven as well as evidence-driven enterprise. However, whereas there has been an expectation that the evidence-base of commissioning should be made fully explicit, the corresponding values-base has been left largely implicit. The book addresses this subject through a detailed discussion of values and values-based practice, illustrated with case ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Medical Decision Making

    A Health Economic Primer

    by Stefan Felder, Thomas Mayrhofer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision making under uncertainty by combining Test Information Theory with Expected Utility Theory. The book shows how the parameters of Bayes’ theorem can be combined with a value function of health states to arrive at informed test and treatment decisions. The authors distinguish between risk-neutral, risk-averse and prudent decision ... Read more

    $58.49 USD