Prev. ed. has subtitle: planning, implementing, and managing organized delivery systems.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
International health care : a twelve-country comparison -- Organized delivery systems -- Legal implications of business arrangements in the healthcare industry -- Financial management of organized healthcare delivery systems -- Labor and employment laws applicable to organized delivery systems -- The management of nursing services -- Marketing healthcare services -- Healthcare information technologies in an era of healthcare reform : a complex adaptive system perspective -- Management engineering -- Ambulatory care -- Bioterrorism preparedness -- The history of hospitals -- Laboratories -- Pharmacy -- Material and resource management -- Facility design and planning for ambulatory care centers -- Quality and patient safety -- Physician practice : organization and operation -- Implementing a physician practice compliance program.
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The Fifth Edition provides graduate and pre-professional students with a comprehensive, detailed overview of the numerous facets of the modern healthcare system, focusing on functions and operations at both the corporate and hospital level. The Fifth Edition of this authoritative text comprises several new subjects, including new chapters on patient safety and ambulatory care center design and planning. Other updated topics include healthcare information systems, management of nursing systems, labor and employment law, and financial management, as well discussions on current healthcare policy in the United States. The Fifth Edition continues to be one of the most effective teaching texts in the field, addressing operational, technical and organizational matters along with the day-to-day responsibilities of hospital administrators. Broad in scope, this essential text has now evolved to offer the most up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the organizational functions of today's complex and ever-changing healthcare delivery system.
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Health services administration.
Hospitals-- Administration.
Delivery of Health Care-- organization & administration.