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Patient Safety: The PROACT Root Cause Analysis Approach
ISBN: 9781420087277 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you ready and willing to get to the root causes of problems? As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for never events, it has become imperative that hospitals and doctors develop new ways to prevent these avoidable catastrophes from recurring. Proactive tools such as root cause analysis (RCA), basic failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and opportunity analysis (OA) are useful in preventing error, but in healthcare, such tools are often constrained by reticence to share information about mistakes and other problems inherent to the... Are you ready and willing to get to the root causes of problems? As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for... |
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558,65 |
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Brain Hypoxia-Ischemia Research Progress
ISBN: 9781604561395 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disorder is characterized by a reduction in both oxygen supply and blood flow to the brain, can be caused by local or systemic conditions, and can lead to serious complications or death if prolonged. Scientists from many parts of the world report and review recent research findings on such aspects as whether age influences ischemic tolerance in the brain, perfusion imaging in acute ischemic stroke, neuro-regeneration in the immature brain, and perinatal hypoxic brain injury.
The disorder is characterized by a reduction in both oxygen supply and blood flow to the brain, can be caused by local or systemic conditions, and can...
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1022,65 |
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The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China - A Qualitative Study to Explore Opinions About the Impact of the NCMS on Accessibility of Rural Healthcar
ISBN: 9783639039337 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a report on a study which aimed to explore different opinions about the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on accessibility of healthcare for the rural population in two pilot counties of Fujian province in China. The study was a mixed method study based on key informant interviews, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, the participatory matrix ranking method as well as hospital utilisation statistics. The NCMS, which was implemented in China in 2003, is the most recent form of a rural health insurance scheme. It is voluntary and aims to protect...
This book is a report on a study which aimed to explore different opinions about the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on accessibil...
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219,18 |
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Leprosy in China: A History
ISBN: 9780231123006 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political spheres (theories of contagion prompted community and statewide efforts at segregation); religious traditions (Buddhism and Daoism ascribed redemptive meaning to those suffering from the disease), and evolving medical discourse (Chinese doctors have contested the disease's etiology for centuries)....
Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stig...
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405,41 |
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Child Survival: Strategies for Research
ISBN: 9780521072977 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In all poor countries, malnutrition and infectious diseases are the major biological processes leading to child deaths, but the social, economic, and environmental determinants of the variations in these conditions in different societies are poorly understood. This 1985 volume contains papers by specialists within the two separate disciplines - demography and epidemiology - primarily concerned with investigating such topics. The overriding objective is to specify the many independent and proximate variables that determine health status and to point out critical interrelationships. The...
In all poor countries, malnutrition and infectious diseases are the major biological processes leading to child deaths, but the social, economic, and ...
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226,16 |
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'If You Knew the Conditions': A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
ISBN: 9780739124451 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If You Knew the Conditions" examines the inadequacies of the healthcare provided to American Indians by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong argues that, while Congress and the Indian Service had a responsibility to provide meaningful and relevant medical services to American Indians, parsimonious appropriations and indifference to American Indian conceptions of well-being limited the effectiveness of Indian medical services.
"If You Knew the Conditions" examines the inadequacies of the healthcare provided to American Indians by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong argues tha...
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446,92 |
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Exploring Differences in Breast Cancer Prognostic Factors - Health Disparities between Caucasian and African-American Women in the United States
ISBN: 9783639021233 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this study is to explore how differences in breast cancer prognostic factors contribute to the diminished survival rate of African-American women in the United States with breast cancer. Relative to Caucasian women, African-American women were found to be diagnosed with breast cancer at younger ages, with more aggressive tumor histology, and at more advanced stages. Age at diagnosis was found to be the most predictive factor for survival, where African-American women were almost two times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 40 years. Differences in...
The purpose of this study is to explore how differences in breast cancer prognostic factors contribute to the diminished survival rate of African-Amer...
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219,18 |
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Processes of Knowing in Multidisciplinary Team Practice
ISBN: 9783639031836 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reforms in healthcare delivery have been numerous with an explicit focus on improving the efficiency and efficacy of care. One of the con-sequences of these changes within healthcare delivery in the UK has been the development of organised collaborations between diverse groups of healthcare workers. This study examines the processes of constructing knowledge in a medical team context. Drawing on Polanyi's theory of knowledge, the multidisciplinary patient management meetings are used to examine the processes of knowing. In setting out patient management plans, learning practices are...
Reforms in healthcare delivery have been numerous with an explicit focus on improving the efficiency and efficacy of care. One of the con-sequences of...
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353,37 |
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Public Health Branding: Applying Marketing for Social Change
ISBN: 9780199237135 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brands are designed to build relationships between consumers and the products, services, or organizations they represent by providing added value to their objects. Through brand promotion, consumers form associations with brands, which can become established and lead to a long-term relationship between the product, service or organization and consumer. Similarly, public health brands are the associations that individuals hold for health behaviours or lifestyles. Public health branding - building positive associations with healthy behaviours and lifestyle choices - is the primary strategy by...
Brands are designed to build relationships between consumers and the products, services, or organizations they represent by providing added value to t...
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314,64 |
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Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870
ISBN: 9780521089289 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities....
This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and...
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321,14 |
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Older Adult-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities: Models and Interventions
ISBN: 9780742563353 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade.
The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is on...
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510,07 |
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Tissue and Cell Donation: An Essential Guide
ISBN: 9781405163224 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work focuses on tissue, haematopoietic stem cell and blood donation. It provides a guide to easier and safer practice in referrals, tissue and organ retrievals and organ retrievals, cord blood collection and decision making.
This work focuses on tissue, haematopoietic stem cell and blood donation. It provides a guide to easier and safer practice in referrals, tissue and or...
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572,46 |
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Health Reforms and Australian Senior Health Executive Workforce
ISBN: 9783639013948 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Healthcare reforms and restructuring have been a global phenomenon since the early 1980s. The major structural reforms in the healthcare system in New South Wales, Australia, heralded a new era in management responsibility and accountability. This book examines how reforms in the NSW Health public sector affected its senior executive workforce between 1990 and 1999 in terms of their roles and responsibilities, the competencies required, and the challenges they faced. It also provides indications of the managerial educational needs for future senior healthcare managers. Most significantly, the...
Healthcare reforms and restructuring have been a global phenomenon since the early 1980s. The major structural reforms in the healthcare system in New...
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353,37 |
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Patient Patients? - Achieving Patient Empowerment through Active Participation, Increased Knowledge and Organisation
ISBN: 9783639052688 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is much debate over what motivates individuals who suffer from diabetes seeking greater empowerment over their treatment and life situation. The Swedish Health Law states that patients have the right to full information about their disease and to determine what treatment to receive. This book focuses upon the experiences of members of two diabetes branch organisations involved in prosecuting the empowerment of their members. The extent to which patient organisations exert their rights is explored via extensive surveys and interviews among the membership of two particularly influential...
There is much debate over what motivates individuals who suffer from diabetes seeking greater empowerment over their treatment and life situation. The...
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312,65 |
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Health Needs Assessment : Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780443052330 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to assist nurses grasping the complex context of current issues surrounding the process of needs assessment so that they could contribute to the debates and develop their practice appropriately.
This text aims to assist nurses grasping the complex context of current issues surrounding the process of needs assessment so that they could contribu...
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203,98 |
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Figuring It Out Fast: The Family's Best Approaches to Nursing Homes
ISBN: 9781560722687 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guidebook seeks to inform readers of the best approaches in dealing with nursing homes and nursing home circumstances. Five chapters trace the family through this heart rending experience.
This guidebook seeks to inform readers of the best approaches in dealing with nursing homes and nursing home circumstances. Five chapters trace the fa...
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158,47 |
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Knowledge in Mental Health: Reclaiming the Social
ISBN: 9781594548123 / Angielski / Mikrofilm Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reclaiming the Social.
Reclaiming the Social.
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838,56 |
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Trends in Lifestyle & Health
ISBN: 9781594543197 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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838,56 |
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Whatever Happened to the General Practitioners
ISBN: 9781560723820 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting on his 35-year career as a doctor in the US, Cantafio laments the trends that have led so many trained practitioners away from direct patient care, and have subjected all doctors to the scorn of patients who rightly see them pursuing personal gain rather than reducing suffering. He reviews the history of medicine and physicians in the co
Reflecting on his 35-year career as a doctor in the US, Cantafio laments the trends that have led so many trained practitioners away from direct patie...
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475,50 |
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Resolving the Illness Care Crisis
ISBN: 9781560722717 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of this text uses his insider's viewpoint to outline the flaws in the health care system. He identifies specific problems and develops specific solutions.
The author of this text uses his insider's viewpoint to outline the flaws in the health care system. He identifies specific problems and develops spec...
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204,49 |