Authors:H. Harrington, James Harringto,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: improvement, performance, generation, management, total
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0070267707
ISBN-13: 9780070267701

Readers will get spectacular results by following Harrington’s basic principles and step-by-step plan for achieving total improvement management. First, he shows how to integrate the four competing methodologies of total technology management, total quality management, total productivity management, and total cost management. Balancing each of these factors results in solid business decisions on where to spend limited resources to ensure long-term results. Next, he puts his total improvement management (TIM) pyramid into action in 15 steps that illustrate how to: Obtain upper management

Authors:Eugene C. Nelson; Paul B. Batalden, Joel S. Lazar,
Publisher: Joint Commission Resource
Keywords: improvement, guide, second, action, clinical, learning, practice, based
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1599400812
ISBN-13: 9781599400815

In microsystem thinking, the quality and value of care produced by a large health system can be no better than the services generated by the small systems of which it is composed. This new edition of a best-selling book explains how to integrate clinical microsystems and practice-based learning into your own organization. You get: detailed case studies that reflect core principles and powerful methods; advice on how to analyze an organization’s current care delivery processes and identify high-impact changes; guidance in using benchmarking to identify best practices; strategies for plann

Author: Karen R. Fauss
Publisher: Amer Society for Quality
Keywords: continuous, improvement, asq, series, grades, language, primary, classroom, arts
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1999-09
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0873894294
ISBN-13: 9780873894296

Author: Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs Comm
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: health, care, series, quality, pathways, measurement, accelerating, improvement, performance
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-06-09
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0309100070
ISBN-13: 9780309100076

"Performance Measurement" is the first in a new series of an ongoing effort by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to improve health care quality. "Performance Measurement" offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a new framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. This new book also addresses the gaps in performance measurement and introduces the need for measures that are longitudinal, comprehensive, population-based, and patient-centered. Thi

Author: Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs Comm
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: quality, series, pathways, care, potential, health, maximizing, improvement, organization, program, medicare
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-08-18
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0309101085
ISBN-13: 9780309101080

"Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program" is the second book in the new "Pathways to Quality Health Care" series. Focusing on performance improvement, it considers the history, role, and effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program and its potential to promote quality improvement within a changing health care delivery environment that includes standardized performance measures and new data collection and reporting requirements. This book carefully examines the QIOs that serve every state as well as the national program that guides and supports them. In

Authors:H. Harrington, K. Esseling, Van Nimwege,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: business, improvement, process, management, design, workbook, documentation, analysis
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0070267790
ISBN-13: 9780070267794

This long-awaited companion and update to H. James Harrington’s best-selling Business Process Improvement is a hands-on implementation guide. It focuses on upgrading information distribution paths to optimize the many processes with which they come in contact. Filled with lists, charts, and appendices, this workbook tells how to document a company’s processes, analyze current effectiveness, design new processes, use system enablers, and much more.

Authors:M. C. Davies, F. Schlosser,
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Keywords: ground, geosystems, improvement, international, conference, third, reinforcement, densification, proceedings
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1997-01
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 0727726056
ISBN-13: 9780727726056

The papers presented in this volume describe the latest developments from around the world on ground improvement by densification and reinforcement. They describe new research into improving the understanding of the problems facing geotechnical engineers working in the field of ground improvement and the advances in the techniques available to them. Numerous case studies show how new and improved methods have actually been applied over a wide variety of ground conditions.