ABSTRACT

First Published in 1988, this book offers a full, comprehensive guide to improving and streamlining productivity in health care. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for students of medicine, student nurses, and other practitioners in their respective fields.

part I|1 pages

Some General Considerations

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

Productivity in Health Care — an Introduction

chapter Chapter 2|5 pages

Productivity and the Economy

chapter Chapter 3|5 pages

The Costs of Medical Care

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

Personnel and Productivity

chapter Chapter 5|4 pages

The Physician and the Hospital

chapter Chapter 6|11 pages

Economics and Decision Making in Health Care

chapter Chapter 7|11 pages

The Management of Health Care

chapter Chapter 8|8 pages

Productivity and the Ethics of Medical Practice

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

The Medical School Influences Productivity

chapter Chapter 10|8 pages

The Industrial-medical Complex

chapter Chapter 11|3 pages

What is Good Medical Care?

part II|1 pages

Attempts to Increase Productivity in Health Care

chapter Chapter 12|4 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 13|7 pages

National Health Insurance

chapter Chapter 14|3 pages

Attempts to Control the System Productivity

chapter Chapter 15|3 pages

Prospective Reimbursement System

chapter 16|4 pages

The Diagnostic Review Group

chapter 17|3 pages

The Health Maintenance Organization

chapter 18|11 pages

Other Systems of Health Care

chapter 19|5 pages

Development of New Ideas

part III|1 pages

Practical Improvement Applications can Change Productivity

chapter Chapter 20|11 pages

The State of U.S. Productivity

chapter Chapter 21|4 pages

How to make changes in productivity

chapter Chapter 23|6 pages

Sequence for Productivity Success

chapter Chapter 24|13 pages

A Case Study of Productivity