| Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety: Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 Countries Contributor(s): Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Author), Matsuyama, Yukihiro (Author), Johnson, Julie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472451406 ISBN-13: 9781472451408 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Risk Assessment - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.104 |
| LCCN: 2014038604 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.57 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety. It looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact national reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care. It explores how reforms drive quality and safety improvement, and equally how they act to negate such goals. Every country included in this book is involved in a reform and improvement process, but each takes place in a particular social, cultural, economic and developmental context, leading to differing emphases and varied progress. Methods for tackling common problems - financing, efficiencies, effectiveness, evidence-based practice, institutional reforms, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives - also differ. Representatives from each nation provide a chapter to convey their own situation. The editors draw a conclusion from these numerous contributions and synthesize the themes emerging into a coherent 'lessons learned' summary that delivers value to the numerous stakeholders. Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety forms a compendium of the current 'state of the art' in global healthcare reform. This is the first book of its type, and offers a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization of ideas to the mutual benefit of countries involved in the project. The content will be of interest to governments, policymakers, managers and leaders, clinicians, teaching academics, researchers and students. |