McLaughlin and Kaluzny's Continuous Quality Improvement In Health Care

Through a unique interdisciplinary perspective on quality management in health care, this text covers the subjects of operations management, organizational behavior, and health services research. With a particular focus on Total Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement, the challenges of implementation and institutionalization are addressed using examples from a variety of health care organizations, including primary care clinics, hospital laboratories, public health departments, and academic health centers.

New to the Fourth Edition:
- All chapters have been updated to reflect recent trends in healthcare including the more global focus of CQI.
- New introductory chapters summarize the evolution of CQI and discuss the factors influencing the application and diffusion of CQI.
- Several new chapters cover 'hot' topics such as the role of the patient in CQI, social marketing as an approach to CQI, assessing risk and harm in patient care, CQI in public health organizations, quality improvement in nursing, and quality improvement in resource-poor countries.
- A new companion volume of case studies

• Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Global Casebook
• The Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project: A Framework for Success
• Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care
• Strategic Planning for Nurses: Change Management in Health Care
• Introduction to Health Care Management
• Proposal Writing for Nursing Capstones and Clinical Projects
• Proposal Writing for Clinical Nursing and DNP Projects
• Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism, Second Edition - New Chapters - 2016 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner
• Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care: Principles and Methods
• Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health