Outcomes Management: Applications to Clinical Practice

By Anne W. Wojner and Anne W. Wojner PhD(c) MSN RN CCRN

Outcomes Management: Applications to Clinical Practice provides a clinical approach for an outcomes program aspiring to improve the quality of patient health through the achievement of best practice. When best practice is realised, cost and length of stay are reduced through decreased complication incidence and self-care improves because of improved consumer health and knowledge.Integrates a clinical approach to outcomes management throughout the book after thorough introduction of the concept in early chapters.Describesthe process of developing, implementing, and refining outcomes management initiative in a step-by-step manner
Presents outcomes management across the continuum of care (i.e., from ICU and acute care to ambulatory care centers, subacute care, home health services, formal rehabilitation, skilled nursing home care, physicians/nurse practitioners, office systems, and outpatient clinics) rather than focusing only on acute-care managementShowcases different, internationally-used, structured-care methodologies, which address the entire continuum of care, in the appendices

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556644116
• ISBN13: 9781556644115
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Finally ! A book with substance!

Finally a book with practical applications to the reality that is healthcare today. Most of the outcomes materials written to day do not translate to the real pace, resources or personnel that are striving to produce actual measure of clincial outcomes.There has been so much hype,distorted measurements and manipulated statistical techniques applied to outcomes research that most of us almost wince when we hear about a new way/term to measure! This book is written for the novice to the experienced practitioner and offers new ideas and practical insight to both.It should be a text book for anyone intersted in the true measure of the work of healthcare. It is invaluable to understand how to communicate the results of outcomes research- this book provides thoughtful insight into speaking to consumers, payors and others about outcomes. This book will give you a great start if you are new and keep you current and relevant if you are experienced!