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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453707703321

Autore

Berwick Donald M (Donald Mark), <1946->

Titolo

Promising care : how we can rescue health care by improving it / / Donald M. Berwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-79583-0

1-118-79585-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Jossey-Bass Public Health

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Medical care - United States - Quality control

Medical care - United States - Evaluation

Health care reform - Citizen participation - United States

Patient advocacy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Collected speeches, 2003-2012"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; The Author; The Commentary Authors; Introduction; Chapter 1: My Right Knee; Specification Number One Is "No Needless Deaths"; Specification Number Two in the RFP Is "No Needless Pain"; Specification Number Three Is "No Helplessness"; Specification Number Four Is "No Unwanted Waiting"; Specification Number Five Is "No Waste"; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Some Is Not a Number, Soon Is Not a Time; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Power; Chapter 4: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Part One of the Framework: The 100,000 Lives Campaign Isn't Over

Part Two of the Framework: If You Were In, You Are In, Unless You Specifically Opt Out Part Three of the Framework: New Goals-Reducing Injuries from Care; Part Four of the Framework: Strengthening the Infrastructure; That Leads Me to Part Five of the Framework: We'll Still Focus on Hospital Care; 1. Prevent Pressure Ulcers; 2. Prevent MRSA Infections; 3. Eliminate Injuries from High-Alert Medications; 4. Reduce Complications of Surgery by Adopting SCIP; 5. Make the Care of



Congestive Heart Failure Reliable-Utterly Reliable; 6. Get "Boards on Board"; Further Reading

Chapter 5: A Message for Ramesh Chapter 6: Eating Soup with a Fork; Further Reading; Chapter 7: What "Patient-Centered" Should Mean: Confessions of an Extremist; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Tense; Act One: The Past; Act Two: The Present; Act Three: The Future; Chapter 9: A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at Sixty; Chapter 10: The Epitaph of Profession; Chapter 11: Squirrel; Chapter 12: You Decide; Chapter 13: The Moral Test; Further Reading; Chapter 14: New Health System-New Professionalism; Chapter 15: To Isaiah; Chapter 16: And We Said, "No"; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M. Berwick, an internationally acclaimed champion of health care improvement throughout the course of his long and storied career as a physician, health care educator and policy expert, leader of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These landmark speeches (including all of Berwick's speeches delivered at IHI's annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care from 2003