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This text is designed to provide the physician with a working knowledge of disease management. Providers and managed care organizations are expected to deliver high quality care to defined populations efficiently, therefore knowledge of disease management is crucial. Included are discussions of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines and outcomes management.

A guide to implementing change programs and restructuring organizations in health care, full of practical tools such as plans, charts, checklists, sample documents, and worksheets. Contains sections on assessment, planning for change, the intervention process, and evaluation. Includes discussion que

Guide to Clinical Resource Management is the first in a series of thre e handbooks. Clinical Resource Management (CRM) is the next stage in t he evolution of restructuring/reengineering. It involves advanced prac tice clinical case management, restructuring the quality and utilizati on departments, and creating multidisciplinary clinical service teams that cross the traditional boundaries of hospital departments, clinics, and physicians. The handbook details the design, implementation, and evaluation of a CRM program in an institution well advanced in restru cturing the delivery of acute care and offers a strategy for surviving and succeeding in a managed care environment.

Case Studies in Nursing Case Management provides portrayals of health care organizations around the nation that have successfully implemente d case management programs. It reports on how case management is being used in inpatient, ambulatory, operating room, intensive care, home h ealth, and subacute settings. Specific populations such as pediatric, maternity, dialysis, geriatric, psychiatric, and AIDS/HIV patients are also addressed. Case managers' roles in managed care and community-ba sed settings as well as in insurance companies are described.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Longterm Care gives home health care providers practical approaches to the ethical and legal issues unique to home health care. The authors provide a sophisticated yet practical framework for developing and applying an ethics action plan. From establishing an ethics committee to integrating legal, clinical, and organizational concerns, to providing key medical-ethical decision making criteria for end-of-life decisions, the book offers home health and other community-based providers a comprehensive resource to guide staff and to avoid liability.

Home Care Redesign introduces home health providers to integrated care delivery systems and shows how to capture and control costs and outcomes, how to deal with staffing issues, and how to gain accreditation from all relevant organizations, including the National Council for Quality Assurance. Changes in documentation, information management, and marketing and billing are addressed. Implementation issues, maintaining the restructured organization, and quality assessment and improvement strategies such as benchmarking are covered. An abundance of practical tools, such as tracking tools, orientation outlines, job descriptions, and examples of documentation and competency assessment and performance tools support the text.

This revised, expanded edition addresses the increased interest in and demand for information about the nursing care of premature, technology-dependent infants once they are at home. In addition to clinical practice and research updates it includes care plans, assessment forms, sample care maps, and other hands-on materials which make it a valuable tool as well as a textbook.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for quality nutrition sup port services. With concise guidance and more than 200 samples of poli cies, procedures, forms and other materials, it covers every area of o perations--from administrative issues to patient identification and as sessment, from nutrient requirements and route of delivery to monitori ng and outcome.

The Home Health Care Answer Book will help new and existing home healt h agencies quickly find answers to specific legal questions. It compre hensively addresses all legal aspects of home health care in an easy-t o-use, question-and-answer format, organized by topic.

This unique contribution to chiropractic provides expert guidance from leaders in the field in one concise resource. Included are standards for chiropractic practice and education, quality assurance and quality control, research in practice, scope of chiropractic practice and mor e.

Newell integrates theory and quality management with nursing case management, a whole-system approach to care delivery. He covers theoretical definitions, benefit coordination, professional development, quality controls, ethics, goal setting, and the demedicalization of health care in the future. Th

A text for undergraduate professional nursing students, emphasizing communication in the context of management and leadership activities. Part I provides the foundation for understanding the evolving support structures of health care delivery. Part II explores issues related to the professional acco

Environmental issues are of increasing concern to the food industry, as consumers and legislators have forced manufacturers to become more aware of the environmental consequences of their operations.

Provides coverage of the scientific aspects of cheese, emphasizing fundamental principles. This book contains 23 chapters that cover the chemistry and microbiology of milk for cheesemaking, starter cultures, coagulation of milk by enzymes or by acidification, the microbiology and biochemistry of cheese ripening, and the flavor of cheese.

Waste data specialists (whether in laboratories, consultancies or environ mental managers of waste facilities) will see how the scope, quantity and quality of their data can be improved to help their colleagues design more effective waste management systems.

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to assessing the needs of patients and establishing a coordinated hospital-to-home discharge plan. The referral format and assessment tools provide the user with an organized and systematic approach for the transition of the patient through the continuum of care. This comprehensive resource is based on current reimbursement and regulatory issues and contains over 150 tools for easy application to a broad spectrum of health care settings.

The author team that brought us Reengineering Nursing and Health Care Delivery has compiled a complete work on the subject of nursing case m anagement. Flarey and Blancett provide a scholarly yet practical refer ence on the state of this increasingly important professional role for nurses. While addressing concepts, theories, and issues, the book foc uses heavily on the how-to of case management development, implementat ion, and evaluation. This authoritative text will help define nursing case management and its core curriculum.

Sensory testing has been in existence ever since man started to use his senses to judge the quality and safety of drinking water and foodstuffs. To some extent, sensory scien tists have perpetuated this fear by failing to recognize the industrial con straints to implementing sensory testing procedures.