{"product_id":"understanding-healthcare-delivery-science-9781260026481","title":"Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn accessible new title focused on the science of healthcare delivery, from the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding \u003c\/i\u003eseries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Doodyâs Core Title for 2024!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eâœ... a landmark text that will shape the field and inform our dialog for years to comeâ-and it should be part of the required curriculum at medical and nursing schools around the world. Excellence in healthcare delivery science should become a core competency of the modern physician. Howell and Stevens have given medicine an important gift that may enable just that.â\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eâSachin H. Jain\u003c\/b\u003e, MD, MBA, FACP;\u003cb\u003e Pres\u003c\/b\u003eident and CEO, CareMore and Aspire Health; Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003eHealthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eâœYou hold in your hands 35 years of investigation and learning, condensed into understandable principles and applications. It is a guidebook for effective care delivery leadership, practice, and success.â\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eâBrent C. James,\u003c\/b\u003e MD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I: WHAT IS HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SCIENCE, AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem: How Research and Operations Are Organized in Healthcare Today \u003cbr\u003eHistorical Context: How Did It Get This Way? \u003cbr\u003eWhy Now Is Different: Two Key Changes in Context \u003cbr\u003eWhy It Matters: Problems with Thinking Too Simply About Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eHealthcare Delivery Science \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003eComplexity\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happens When We View Healthcare as Complicated? \u003cbr\u003eWhat Is a Complex Adaptive System? \u003cbr\u003eWhy It Matters: Fitting the Right Measurement Tool to the Question \u003cbr\u003eHealthcare Delivery Science: A Field of Research Where Healthcare Itself Is the Organism Under Study \u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003eQuality and Safety in Healthcare\u003cbr\u003eThe Best the World Has Ever Seen \u003cbr\u003eThree Critical Papers to Know \u003cbr\u003eAn Inflection Point: To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm \u003cbr\u003eMore Recent Estimates About Deaths from Medical Error \u003cbr\u003eInternational Comparisons \u003cbr\u003eHave Improvement Efforts Worked? \u003cbr\u003eHow We Put It All Together \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003eWhat Does the Future Hold? \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eValue Drives Change \u003cbr\u003eThe “Postsafety” Era \u003cbr\u003eHealthcare Delivery That Delivers Health \u003cbr\u003eConsumerism Versus Personalization \u003cbr\u003eThe Doctor Will See You Now? \u003cbr\u003eInformed Healthcare Information Technology (IT) \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II: MAKING CHANGE IN THE REAL WORLD—TOOLS FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003cbr\u003eHuman Factors\u003cbr\u003eHuman Factors: An Introduction \u003cbr\u003eCognitive Reasoning, Errors, and Biases in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eHierarchy: What Is It, How Do We Measure It, and Why Does It Matter? \u003cbr\u003eTools for Understanding Complex Systems \u003cbr\u003eConclusions \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003cbr\u003eHow Teams Work \u003cbr\u003eTypes of Teams \u003cbr\u003eWhat Do Teams Need to Succeed? \u003cbr\u003ePoorly Functioning Teams in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eTeams in Aviation and the Birth of Crew Resource Management (CRM) \u003cbr\u003eCRM in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eLeading Teams Through Change \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003cbr\u003eLeadership and Culture Change\u003cbr\u003eLeading Change Is Difficult \u003cbr\u003eWhere to Start \u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Implementation Science? \u003cbr\u003eImplementation Science Frameworks \u003cbr\u003eIntegrating Implementation Science Frameworks for the Purpose of Change Management  \u003cbr\u003eReferences  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003cbr\u003eStandard Quality Improvement Tools and Techniques\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePreventing Adverse Events and Improving Patient Safety \u003cbr\u003eIdentifying Patient Safety Events \u003cbr\u003eRoot Cause Analysis (RCA) \u003cbr\u003eFailure Mode Effects (and Criticality) Analysis (FMEA and FMECA) \u003cbr\u003eSafety I and Safety II \u003cbr\u003eProcess Improvement and Quality Improvement \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003cbr\u003eLean Improvement Techniques in Healthcare\u003cbr\u003eA Brief History of Lean \u003cbr\u003eThe Rules of Lean \u003cbr\u003eA Concrete Definition of the Ideal \u003cbr\u003eThe 8 Wastes \u003cbr\u003eTools from Lean \u003cbr\u003eSummary \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10\u003cbr\u003ePartnering with Community, Professional, and Policy Organizations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eHow Health Is Created \u003cbr\u003eKey Stakeholders in Shaping Health \u003cbr\u003eEngaging with Local Public Health Agencies \u003cbr\u003eApproaches to Successful Partnerships \u003cbr\u003eConcluding Thoughts \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III: SEEING THE TRUTH—ANALYTICS IN HEALTHCARE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003cbr\u003eData in Healthcare\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Fundamental Issues in Healthcare Data \u003cbr\u003ePart 2: The Importance of Understanding Data Lineage, and How This Leads Mature Organizations to Both Informal and Formal Data Governance \u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Basic Understanding of Relational Database Structures \u003cbr\u003ePart 4: Review of Common Approaches to Actually Accessing Healthcare Data \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003cbr\u003eMeasuring Quality and Safety\u003cbr\u003eQuality Measurement Frameworks \u003cbr\u003eWhat Are You Trying to Achieve? Improvement, Comparison, or Accountability \u003cbr\u003eWhat Makes a Good Measure? \u003cbr\u003eChallenges \u003cbr\u003eCommon Measure Sets and Major Pay-For-Performance Programs \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003cbr\u003eOverview of Analytic Techniques and Common Pitfalls\u003cbr\u003eDinosaur Footprints and What They Tell Us About Data Analysis in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eThe Four Horsemen of Mistaken Conclusions \u003cbr\u003eThe Critical Importance of Missing Data \u003cbr\u003eThe Shape of Data: Categories of Data and Why They Matter \u003cbr\u003eOverview of Analytic Methods \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003cbr\u003eEveryday Analytics\u003cbr\u003eSummarizing Your Data \u003cbr\u003eDisplaying Data \u003cbr\u003eOutcomes Over Time, Part I – Run Charts \u003cbr\u003eHow to Tell if Two Groups Are Different: Univariable Tests of Difference and Measures of Comparison \u003cbr\u003eOutcomes Over Time, Part 2—Statistical Process Control (SPC) Charts \u003cbr\u003eEveryday Analytics \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15\u003cbr\u003eSurvey-Based Data\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the Most Important Thing You’ll Learn in This Chapter \u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Some of the Main Purposes of Surveys? \u003cbr\u003eOverview of Conducting a Survey \u003cbr\u003eSome Pitfalls \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16\u003cbr\u003ePredictive Modeling 1.0 and 2.0\u003cbr\u003eWhat to Expect in This Chapter \u003cbr\u003ePredictive Modeling 1.0 \u003cbr\u003ePredictive Modeling 2.0 \u003cbr\u003eTaking Predictions to the Next Level \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17\u003cbr\u003ePredictive Modeling 3.0: Machine Learning\u003cbr\u003eDefinitions: What Is Artificial Intelligence? Machine Learning? \u003cbr\u003eA Brief History of Artificial Intelligence \u003cbr\u003eTranslating Epidemiology to Machine Learning \u003cbr\u003eCategories of Machine Learning Used in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003ePitfalls in Using Machine Learning in Healthcare \u003cbr\u003eThe Future \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18\u003cbr\u003eWhat Everyone Should Know About Risk Adjustment\u003cbr\u003eWhat Is Risk Adjustment, and Why We Should Care? \u003cbr\u003eWhat Risk Adjustments Are Available, and How Should We Assess Them? \u003cbr\u003eExamples of Risk Adjustment Gone Awry \u003cbr\u003eUsing Risk Adjustment in Local Healthcare Delivery Science \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19\u003cbr\u003eModeling Patient Flow: Understanding Throughput and Census\u003cbr\u003eWhy Does Understanding Patient Flow Matter? \u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding Patient Flow Conceptually \u003cbr\u003eAnalytical Approaches to Understanding Patient Flow \u003cbr\u003eSummary \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20\u003cbr\u003eProgram Evaluation\u003cbr\u003eCausal Methods \u003cbr\u003eQuasi-Experimental Designs—Causal Inference in Observational Data \u003cbr\u003eEvaluations in the Real World \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21\u003cbr\u003eHow to Embed Healthcare Delivery Science Into Your Health System\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eHow Do I Join (or Build) a Community of Healthcare Delivery Science? \u003cbr\u003eHow to Embed Healthcare Delivery Science in Your Health System \u003cbr\u003eSummary \u003cbr\u003eReference \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742403723607,"sku":"9781260026481","price":58.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-healthcare-delivery-science-9781260026481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}