Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems

Healthcare Delivery System Overview Health Care: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? David M. Lawrence Engineering and the Healthcare Delivery System, Proctor P. Reid and W. Dale Compton The VA Healthcare Delivery System, Elizabeth M. Yano Outpatient Clinics: Primary and Specialty Care, Deanna R. Willis Designing a Nurse-Managed Healthcare Delivery System, Julie Cowan Novak Long-Term Care, Kathleen Abrahamson and Karis Pressler Healthcare Insurance: An Introduction, Vinod K. Sahney and Ann Tousignant An Integrated Model of Healthcare Delivery, Steven M. Witz and Kenneth J. Musselman Performance Assessment and Process Improvement Management Performance Assessment for Healthcare Organizations, Peter Arthur Woodbridge and George Oscar Allen Managing Physician Panels in Primary Care, Hari Balasubramanian, Brian T. Denton, and Qi Ming Lin Lean in Health Care, Philip C. Jones and Barrett W. Thomas Patient Safety and Proactive Risk Assessment, Pascale Carayon, Helene Faye, Ann Schoofs Hundt, Ben-Tzion Karsh, and Tosha B. Wetterneck Toward More Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice: Relational and Contextual Considerations, Priscilla A. Arling, Rebekah L. Fox, and Bradley N. Doebbeling System Engineering: Technologies and Methodologies Computer Simulation in Health Care, Sean Carr and Stephen D. Roberts An Introduction to Optimization Models and Applications in Healthcare Delivery Systems, Wenhua Cao and Gino J. Lim Queueing Theory and Modeling, Linda V. Green Markov Decision Processes and Their Applications in Health Care, Jonathan Patrick and Mehmet A. Begen Statistical-Based Analysis and Modeling, Min Zhang and Mark E. Cowen Analyzing Decisions Using Datasets with Multiple Attributes: A Machine Learning Approach, Janusz Wojtusiak and Farrokh Alemi The Shaping of Inventory Systems in Health Services, Jan de Vries and Karen Spens Facility Planning and Design, Richard L. Miller Work Design, Task Analysis, and Value Stream Mapping, Cindy Jimmerson Scheduling and Sequencing, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, Tomas Eric Nordlander, and Atle Riise Data Mining, Niels Peek Applications to HIV Prevention Strategies, Paul G. Farnham and Arielle Lasry Causal Risk Analysis: Revisiting the Vioxx Study, Farrokh Alemi and Manaf Zargoush Design, Planning, Control, and Management of Healthcare Systems Preventive Care Vaccine Production, Karen M. Polizzi and Cleo Kontoravdi Economic Implications of Preventive Care, George H. Avery, Kara E. Leonard, and Steve P. McKenzie Telemedicine Interactive Medicine, Pamela Whitten, Samantha A. Nazione, and Jennifer Cornacchione Transplant Services The U.S. Organ Transplant Network: History, Structure, and Functions, Timothy L. Pruett and Joel D. Newman Pharmacy Operation Pharmacoeconomics and the Drug Development Process, Stephanie R. Earnshaw, Thomas N. Taylor, and Cheryl McDade ED/ICU Operation Emergency Department Crowding, Joshua A. Hilton and Jesse M. Pines Emergency Department Throughput from a Healthcare Leader's Perspective, Airica Steed OR Management Capacity Planning in Operating Rooms, John T. Blake Managing Critical Resources through an Improved Surgery Scheduling Process, Erik Demeulemeester, Jeroen Belien, and Brecht Cardoen Anesthesia Group Management and Strategies, William H. Hass, Alex Macario, and Randal G. Garner Decontamination Service Turnovers and Turnarounds in the Healthcare System, June M. Worley and Toni L. Doolen Decontamination Service, Peter F. Hooper Laboratories Quality Control in Hospital Clinical Laboratories: A System Approach, George G. Klee Emergency Response and Pandemics Planning Emergency Planning Model for Pandemics, J. Eric Dietz, David R. Black, Julia E. Drifmeyer, and Jennifer A. Smock Public Health and Medical Preparedness, Eva K. Lee, Anna Yang Yang, Ferdinand Pietz, and Bernard Benecke Mental Health Mental Health Allocation and Planning Simulation Model, H. Stephen Leff, David R. Hughes, Clifton M. Chow, Steven Noyes, and Laysha Ostrow Correlation with Social and Medical Factors, Kathleen Abrahamson, Karis Pressler, and Melissa Grabner-Hagen Food and Supplies Healthcare Foodservice, L. Charnette Norton Healthcare-Product Supply Chains: Medical-Surgical Supplies, Pharmaceuticals, and Orthopedic Devices: The Flows of Product, Information, and Dollars, Leroy B. Schwarz Tracking and Information Systems Wireless Sensor Network, James A.C. Patterson, Raza Ali, and Guang-Zhong Yang Bar Coding in Medication Administration, Ben-Tzion Karsh, Tosha B. Wetterneck, Richard J. Holden, A. Joy Rivera-Rodriguez, Helene Faye, Matthew C. Scanlon, Pascale Carayon, and Samuel J. Alper Clinical Decision Support Systems, Sze-jung Sandra Wu, Mark Lehto, and Yuehwern Yih Health Informatics: Systems and Design Considerations, Jose Antonio Valdez and Rupa Sheth Valdez Privacy/Security/Personal Health Record Service, Jeff Donnell Index