This book provides practical tools for implementing a permanent quality management program in long-term care facilities. The authors have designed their own mode for quality management integration. The QMI model is built around 6 core concepts. Also included are case examples and analyzed data.
New treatments and advances in therapy for the ravages of Parkinson's disease are constantly being researched and perfected for patients. This second edition covers a variety of topics, providing information and suggestions for patients, families, and caregivers to aid them as they grapple with this chronic, debilitating neurological disorder.
Shattering the myths about what's wrong with managed health care, this title explains its origins and identifies its real achievements and shortcomings. It argues that many criticisms of managed care tend to idealize the costly and fragmented insurance system it supplanted, without pinpointing the true inadequacies of today's managed care.
Exposes the new age of health maintenance organisations (HMOs) doctoring for what it is: a rush to profit rather than a concern for patient's needs; a cost-versus-quality machine that emphasises the bottom line, while patients become the victims of a corporate mentality that favours assembly-line treatment standards.
How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program.
Triumphs of the Chronically III and Physically Challenged
Contains seventeen personal accounts of people who live daily with various chronic illnesses and/or physical conditions yet have learned to endure, move on with their lives, and have gone out of their way to help, employ, and motivate others.
In this cross-cutting analysis, some of the US's most prominent social insurance experts go beyond recent budget debates to examine the fundamental and technical choices Medicare poses for the American people in the next century. The book concludes with an examination of how public opinion, politics, and leadership affect the prospects for ......
Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
Looks at how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to describe their enviromentally induced illnesses, and how these explanations influence public policies and laws.
