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This book is a fascinating, well organized and effortless read. This innovative book addresses the critical, growing need among healthcare administrators and practitioners to measure the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts as well as controlling the cost of care. It is full of tools and approaches that will help healthcare leaders create organizations that are responsive to their communities and that constantly strive to improve operations. Written by respected healthcare professionals, Thinking Forward is a concise overview of best practices in six critical areas of hospital operations –governance, service lines, complex case management, prevention, support services and service excellence- using real examples from hospitals within the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) system. The authors candidly describe the direction each of the featured hospitals took to achieve their various successes, and how CHI implemented those leading practices across its whole system. They also discuss potential pitfalls, and how other systems and freestanding organizations can learn from their experience.
This book begins with a basic overview of the key principles and trends of healthcare management and performance issues in the healthcare system and the efforts of one system, CHI, to meet the challenges posed by tomorrow’s healthcare environment. Chapters 2 through 7 contain practical, real-life, examples of the six hospitals implementing, one each, of the best practice strategies in the six critical areas of hospital operations. Chapter 8 gives an overall summary/conclusion. The processes described in this book eliminate errors, improve outcomes, and lower costs. The extensive use of charts, tables and diagrams was very helpful in presenting complex concepts. Even though many of the concepts presented were not new, the practical examples cited helped bring out present application of the concept. They succeed by restructuring the fundamentals of providing care. This book’s approachable question and answer format will inspire individuals, at all levels of the organization, to initiate improvement efforts within their organization. In my opinion, this book is a must read for anyone involved in healthcare.

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A highly visual representation for pathologists, surgeons, registrars, and oncologists who wish to visualize the TNM components for 39 disease sites.

Hundreds of illustrations provide detailed and thorough anatomic depictions that clarify critical structures and allow the reader to instantly visualize the progressive extent of malignant disease. The book includes diagnostic criteria and surgical approaches for new classifications of breast cancer and melanoma, including primary tumor and regional lymph node definitions. The illustrations are unparalleled in their detailed depiction of the new primary tumor system based upon thickness and ulceration.

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Achieving Safe and Reliable Healthcare
Every healthcare organization must address the issue of medical error or face the negative response of the public, the media, and regulatory bodies. This practical resource will provide you with a comprehensive blueprint for building and supporting a culture of patient safety. It includes contributions from experts in leading organizations including the renowned Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

With the strategies and tools in this book you can:

Assess the safety climate of your organization with a tool used at more than 300 hospitals
Optimize teamwork and communication among staff members
Build safeguards into your clinical care systems
Develop policies that hold staff accountable for their own performance but not for system flaws
Communicate openly with patients and family when an error occurs
Create an adverse event and potential event reporting system that generates ideas for improvement
Develop an executive WalkRounds program that involves meeting with staff and engaging in a two-way conversation about safety
Employ tools that assist organizations in identifying potential trouble spots and in leveraging actions to prevent harm

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Numerous unique considerations associated with long-term care (LTC) make managing LTC services different from managing a hospital, managed care organization, or other healthcare operation. The culture, clients, families, financing—virtually every aspect of long-term care—differ from those in other healthcare organizations.

The ins and outs of LTC

In Managing Long-Term Care, authors Connie Evashwick and James Riedel introduce the reader to management concepts that can be applied to a wide range of LTC settings, including provider, payer, or regulatory organizations. This book does not provide all of the “answers,” but provokes the thinking required for decision making, presents a framework for working with various issues, and offers sources for further information. Managing Long-Term Care is a practical look at the daily management challenges found in the long-term care environment.

Topics include the following:

• Human resources
• Marketing
• Management teams
• Quality assurance
• Information systems
• Ethics
• Strategic planning
• Financial management
• Equipment and space needs

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This book is the second book in a series designed to widely share innovations in patient care.

The ideas in this new book have been filtered through the perspective of quality experts including a top executive at the renowned Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Ten ideas are explored in this book, each with its own chapter that provides a description of the idea, an example of the idea in practice, and the results that have been achieved with the application of the idea.

This book was developed to call attention to 10 more promising innovations and processes that you can adapt to your organization. Zero-in on ideas that have immediate application to a challenge you are facing, or read all 10 ideas to promote broad thinking about your organizational strategy.

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Busy executives and administrators hear about hundreds of patient care improvement ideas each year, but don’t often know the answers to questions such as

• Is this a really good idea?
• Has it produced results?
• Would it work for my kind of organization?
• Where could I go to learn more about this idea?

James Reinertsen and Wim Schellekens’ 10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care answers those questions, and presents you with bold and practical ideas that will undoubtedly improve your organization’s patient care quality. Each idea in this book has already been proven to yield dramatic results at the organization level. The book includes such ideas as:

• Include patients directly in the process of redesigning care systems—shifting more power to the patient is the ultimate transformational strategy
• Plan for system-level (not just project-level) improvements—weave improvement projects into the fabric of everyday operations for the entire organization
• Aim for perfection rather than just matching your competition—benchmarks contain a lot of defects. Do you really want to become “the cream of the crap?”
• Schedule an appointment for each patient’s discharge—and reduce bottlenecks in flow throughout your hospital

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Blood Transfusion Therapy
Designed as a laminated flip-chart, this guide is created for nurses, medical technologists and other health-care professionals responsible for blood administration. The guide uses bullet points and colorful graphics to provide concise information on administering transfusions safely and appropriately.

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Practical Occupational Medicine
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The second edition of Practical Occupational Medicine bridges the gap between day-to-day clinical practice, concerned primarily with diagnosis and treatment of disease, and occupational health practice which is concerned with the prevention of work-related disease and the management of ill health in relation to the workplace.

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Current Concepts in Post-Operative Pain Management, An Issue ofAnesthesiology Clinics Clinics Series
By Girish Joshi, MB, BS, MD, FFARC; and Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Dripps Professor and Chairman, Department of Anesthesia; Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ISBN 1416028072 · Hardback · 240 Pages
Contents
1. Multimodal and Multidisciplinary Approach to Postoperative Pain Management (Joshi) 2. Mechanisms of Incisional Pain (Brennan, Zahn, Pogatzki-Zahn) 3. Consequences of Inadequate Pain Relief (emphasis on persistent pain) (Perkins) 4. Postoperative Care of the Chronic Opioid Consuming Patient (Swenson, Davis, Johnson) 5. Role of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and COX-2 Specific Inhibitors in Postoperative Pain Management (Gajraj, Joshi) 6. Clinical Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics (White, Durieux)7. Role of Analgesic Adjuncts in Postoperative Pain Management (Habib, Gan)8. IV-PCA: One Size Does Not Fit All (MacIntyre) 9. Epidural Analgesia For Postoperative Pain (Richman, Wu) 10. Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Continuous Catheter Techniques (Evans, Steele, Nielsen, Tucker, Klein) 11. Postoperative Pain Management in Children (Verghese, Hannallah) 12. Procedure Specific Postoperative Pain Management (Kehlet) 13. Acute Pain Services (Costs of Postoperative Pain Management) (Rawal)

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This full-color, multimedia reference is a comprehensive how-to guide to the latest surgical procedures for rejuvenating the aging face. Chapters guide readers systematically through every step of preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, surgical technique, and postoperative care and include lists of instrumentation and equipment and preoperative and postoperative patient instruction sheets. Coverage also includes practice management, adjunctive procedures, cutaneous resurfacing, basic skin care, and medical management of hair loss. The book contains 494 full-color illustrations, including step-by-step photography and large-size, computer-rendered drawings.

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Completely updated for its Fifth Edition, the best-selling Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine is the most comprehensive textbook you can buy in this specialty. No other text delivers more information on more aspects of pediatric emergency medicine, including resuscitation; more than 70 signs and symptoms; trauma; medical and surgical emergencies; psychosocial emergencies; neonatal and adolescent care; and an all-inclusive section on procedures. This edition includes new pediatric indications for drugs used in the emergency department and more information on ultrasound imaging.

Hundreds of illustrations and tables complement the text throughout. Algorithms for diagnosis and treatment are included in all the chapters on signs and symptoms as well as many others.