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Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients' Care
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Title Details
5th Ed.
© 2025 Joint Commission
ISBN-13: 978-1-63585-447-3
eISBN-13: 978-1-63585-448-0
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement , Healthcare Administration, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Additional Details
Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patient’s Care, Fifth Edition, is intended to help health professional learners diagnose, measure, analyze, change, and lead improvements in health care, with the aim to shape reliable, high-quality systems of care in partnership with patients, families, and communities. Co-published with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), this new edition includes updated resources, examples, figures, tables, and tools.
New to this edition is a brand-new chapter that addresses how quality improvement can lead to and support optimal health outcomes for all patients. Also new to this edition is an expanded discussion of effective teamwork and the importance of creating multidisciplinary health care teams that partner with patients, families, and communities.
Key Topics in the 5th edition
- • Identifying gaps in quality and working in teams to close those gaps
- • Exploring the intersection of quality improvement and excellent health outcomes for all patients
- • Finding scientific evidence for clinical improvement
- • Identifying a focus for improvement
- • Understanding process literacy, culture, content, and systems in health care
- • Analyzing data for decision making
- • Using measurement tools to gain insight
- • Understanding and implementing change
- • Spreading and sustaining improvement
- • Publishing and presenting the improvement
- • Using improvement tools
Key Features
- • Clinical problem-solving and teamwork vignettes
- • Chapter objectives and study questions to assess learning
- • Comparisons between types of measurement tools and ideas for practical applications
- • Updated SQUIRE publishing guidelines and presentation strategies
- • Downloadable tools, worksheets, and resources
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