Improving Patient Care 2e: The Implementation of Change in Health Care - Softcover

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Richard Grol, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, The Netherlands
Michel Wensing, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, The Netherlands
Martin Eccles, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David Davis, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC, USA, Washington DC, USA, USA

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As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within complex organizations. It is necessary to understand the consequences of introducing change, how to best implement new procedures and techniques, how to evaluate success and to improve the quality of patient care. This comprehensive guide allows you to do just that.

Improving Patient Care, 2nd edition provides a structure for professionals and change agents to implement better practices in health care. It helps health professionals, managers, policy makers and researchers to assess new techniques and select and implement change in their organizations. This new edition includes recent evidence and further coverage on patient safety and patient centred strategies for change.  

Written by an international expert author team, Improving Patient Care is an established standard text for postgraduate students of health policy, health services and health management. The strong author team are global professors involved in managing research and development in the field of quality improvement, evidence-based practice and guidelines, quality assessment and indicators to improve patient outcomes through receiving appropriate healthcare.