Focus operations management for health services organizations/

Main Author: Ronen, Boaz
Other Authors: Pass, Shimeon,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, c2006
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007386.html
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245 1 0 |a Focus operations management for health services organizations/  |c Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin with Shimeon Pass ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick 
260 |a San Francisco, California:  |b Jossey-Bass,  |c c2006 
300 |a xxvii, 354 p. :  |b ill., tables ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339). 
505 0 |a The modern health care and business environment -- Principles of management in a dynamic environment -- The Pareto rule, focusing table, and focusing matrix -- Management by constraints: the focusing steps of the theory of constraints -- Management by constraints in a bottleneck environment -- Management by constraints when the market is the constraint -- Focused current reality tree -- Resolving managerial conflicts -- The efficiencies syndrome -- The evils of long response times -- Reducing response times -- The complete kit concept -- Performance measures and managerial control -- Effects of fluctuations, variability, and uncertainty on the system -- The evils of traditional cost accounting -- Marketing, costing, and pricing considerations in decision-making processes -- Quality management and process control -- Creating value for health care organizations -- Case study: the emergency department at Guard Mountain Hospital -- Our managerial credo. 
650 0 |a Health services administration 
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856 4 0 |a Berwick, Donald M.  |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006007386.html 
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