JC EBMPF 2018
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Optimizing Patient Flow: Advanced Strategies for Managing Variability to Enhance Access, Quality, and Safety
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| Joint Commission | 2018 | 217 |
Edited by patient flow expert Dr. Eugene Litvak, this book provides innovative techniques for optimizing patient flow and improving operations management to increase quality and safety!
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cover/title page |
| 3 | Contents |
| 5 | Acknowledgments |
| 7 | Foreword |
| 9 | Introduction |
| 13 | Prologue |
| 17 | PART I: CEO Perspectives: Committing to Optimized Patient Flow |
| 19 | Chapter 1: How We Improved Care and Added Millions to the Bottom Line: An Outsider’s Perspectives |
| 25 | Chapter 2: Using Operations Management to Reduce Variability in Surgical Demand |
| 33 | Chapter 3: A Proactive Initiative to Improve OR Scheduling |
| 37 | Chapter 4: Using Science and Design to Improve Patient Flow |
| 43 | PART II: The Mechanics of Flow |
| 45 | Chapter 5: Reduction and Management of Variability in Health Care Delivery |
| 55 | Chapter 6: Using Variability Methodology to Improve Patient Flow: Three Projects Offering Tangible R |
| 83 | Chapter 7: Variability Methodology: Tools & Techniques |
| 111 | PART III: How We Did It: The Case Studies |
| 113 | Chapter 8: Right Focus, Right Solution: How Reducing Variability in Admission and Discharge Improves |
| 129 | Chapter 9: New Jersey’s Collaborative on Patient Throughput |
| 143 | Chapter 10: Rightsizing Inpatient Medical Units: Developing Telemetry ADT Criteria |
| 153 | Chapter 11: Standardizing Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Processes to Reduce Artificial and Clin |
| 173 | PART IV: Whole System Flow: Beyond the Hospital Setting |
| 175 | Chapter 12: Bottlenecks in Flow to Post-Acute Care |
| 189 | Chapter 13: Pulling Out All the Stops: Delivering Whole System Flow |
| 207 | Index |
| 217 | Back cover |
