Clinical Integration : Strategies and Practices for Organized Delivery Systems
Overview
Experts in the health care industry offer down-to-earth guidance and tested strategies that will help create and improve clinical integration. Managed care pressures are forcing the creation of larger and larger delivery systems, but little is known about how to coordinate clinical services within these complex systems. This groundbreaking resource outlines six specific mechanisms to successfully accomplish clinical integration and narrows the gap between those who manage patient care services and those who plan overall health systems. Written by experts in the health care industry -- executives, doctors, and nurses -- the book offers down-to-earth guidance and tested strategies for creating and improving clinical integration. In addition, the use and implementation of specific tools and approaches are examined -- including continuous quality improvement, information systems, critical paths, and case management, physician leadership, and physician/provider linkage. Throughout the book the authors include real-life case examples as well as illustrative tables, diagrams, figures.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780787940393
- ISBN-10: 0787940399
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish Date: May 1998
- Dimensions: 9.32 x 6.37 x 0.87 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.08 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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