Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems.
With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
CRC Press,
2010
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| Series: | Industrial and systems engineering series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems offers theoretical foundations, methodologies, and case studies in each main sector of the system. It explores how system engineering methodologies and their applications in designing, evaluating, and optimizing the operations of the healthcare system could improve patient outco. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (798 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781439803622 1439803625 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
