Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare: A Critical Historical Survey

ISBN-13: 9781137351982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 217 str.

Matthias Beck; Sara Melo

Opis

Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. Chapter one starts with a general discussion of the factors that drove the introduction of management paradigms into public sector and health management contexts in the mid to late 1980s. Chapter two explores the rise of risk awareness in medicine; which, prior to the 1980s, stood largely in isolation to the implementation of managerial performance targets. Chapter three investigates the widespread adoption of performance management and clinical governance frameworks during the 1980s and 1990s. This is followed by Chapters four and five which examine systems based models of patient safety and the evidence-based medicine movement as exemplars of managerial perspectives on healthcare quality. Chapter six discusses potential future avenues for the development of alternative perspectives on quality of care which emphasise workforce involvement. The book concludes by reviewing the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades and explores the potential impact of nascent technologies such as 'connected health' and 'telehealth' on future developments.

Spis treści

1. Managerialism: A Historical Overview 2. Risk in Medicine: Early Developments to the 1980s 3. Quality Management in Health care 4. Models of Patient Safety and Critique 5. Evidence-based Medicine 6. Managerialism in Healthcare: Future Avenues

O autorze

Sara Melo, PhD is a Lecturer in Management at Queen's University Management School in Belfast. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow and Project Manager at Trinity College Dublin and as a Teaching Fellow at The York Management School, University of York where she received her PhD in Management. Her research interests include healthcare management, innovation, organisational learning.

Prof Matthias Beck, PhD (MIT) MArch MUP (Kansas) FRSA is chair in Public Sector Management at the Queen's University Management School in Belfast. His research interests are in the areas of Risk, State-Business relationships, and the Political Economy of Management more generally. Previously he was chair in Public Sector Management at the University of York, UK.