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Citation
(2012), "Sustainably Improving Health Care – Creatively Linking Care Outcomes, System Performance and Professional Development", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 25 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2012.06225haa.018
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Sustainably Improving Health Care – Creatively Linking Care Outcomes, System Performance and Professional Development
Sustainably Improving Health Care – Creatively Linking Care Outcomes, System Performance and Professional Development
Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 25, Issue 8
Edited by Paul Batalden and Tina Foster,Radcliffe Publishing,ISBN: 978-1-846-19521-1
Keywords: Sustainable improvements in healthcare, Improved healthcare outcomes, Healthcare performance management, Professional development in healthcare
Sustainably Improving Health Care promotes the importance of integrating improved care outcomes, system performance and professional development so that the future of health care advancement is creative and sustainable. It addresses the challenge of creating and nurturing a culture of continuous improvement that is able to sustain and generate creative professional work for the improvement of health care.
Using real-world examples, the book succinctly reveals how the model can be practically applied from a variety of different perspectives. Health care leaders at all levels will find much needed motivation to invest in development, and professionals and educators will also benefit from the practical approach of this inspirational model.
Contents include:
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The evolutionary beginnings of the model.
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Better patient, population outcome: practical approaches that health systems can adopt for measuring the health of patients and populations.
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Better system performance: approaches to improving care by addressing different levels of systems.
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Better professional development – competence, mastery, pride and joy.
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Teaching the triangle – the Dartmouth-Hitchcock leadership preventive medicine residency program.
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Simple, complicated and complex phenomena in health care – using the triangle to improve reliability and resiliency in health care systems faculty as coaches: their development and their work.
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Governance, leadership, management, organizational structure and oversight principles and practices.
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The triangle and undergraduate medical education.
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Triangle synergies in a national quality and safety education initiative in nursing. Collaborative improvement of cancer care in South-Eastern Sweden – striving for better patient and population health, better care, and better professional development.