Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Total Quality Management

Quality in a lean healthcare setting has one ultimate goal--to improve care delivery and value for the patient. The purpose of this book is to provide a blueprint to hospitals, health care organizations, leaders, and patient-facing workers with tools, training, and ideas to address quality within their organization. Examples from healthcare and other industries are provided to illustrate lean methodology in lean and their application in quality. The reader can learn how other organizations improve quality, what their roles are, and what they do daily. By the end of the book, you will have...

Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding lean initiatives. It begins with the identification and establishment of strategic goals, followed with strategy development, and lastly tactical choices. This model framework is cognizant of a firm's relative internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats.

Each of the four integral lean system...

ISO 9001: 2015 In Brief provides an introduction to quality management systems for students, newcomers and busy executives, with a user friendly, simplified explanation of the history, the requirements and benefits of the new standard.

This short, easy-to-understand reference tool also helps organisations to quickly set up an ISO 9001:2015 compliant Quality Management System for themselves at minimal expense and without high consultancy fees.

Now in its fourth edition, " ISO 9001:2015 In Brief "consists of a number of chapters covering topics like:

• What is Quality?...

Revised and fully, "ISO 9001:2015 Audit Procedures" describes the methods for completing management reviews and quality audits and describes the changes made to the standards for 2015 and how they are likely to impact on your own audit procedures.

Now in its fourth edition, this text includes essential material on process models, generic processes and detailed coverage of auditor questionnaires. Part II includes a series of useful checklists to assist auditors in compiling their own systems and individual audit check sheets. The whole text is also supported with a glossary of terms as...

Revised and fully, ISO 9001:2015 Audit Procedures describes the methods for completing management reviews and quality audits and describes the changes made to the standards for 2015 and how they are likely to impact on your own audit procedures.

Now in its fourth edition, this text includes essential material on process models, generic processes and detailed coverage of auditor questionnaires. Part II includes a series of useful checklists to assist auditors in compiling their own systems and individual audit check sheets. The whole text is also supported with a glossary of...

The "Handbook of Corporate Performance Management" takes a practical approach, offering guidance on what works, tools to use, and how leadership makes an essential contribution to success.

THE BOOK IS BROADLY DIVIDED INTO FOUR SECTIONS Section One Provides the essential toolkit for setting up and...

This book creates a balance between the theory, practical applications, and computer implementation behind Regression--one of the most widely used techniques in analyzing and solving real world problems. It begins with a thorough explanation of prerequisite knowledge with a discussion of Simple Regression Analysis including the computer applications. Multiple Regression--a widely used tool to predict a response variable using two or more predictors, follows this. Since the analyses of regression models involve tedious and complex computations, complete computer analysis including the...