Measuring Health Care: Using Quality Data for Operational, Financial, and Clinical Improvement

•       Platform: Yosef Dlugacz is rising in the health care quality field, with a heavy and increasing schedule of seminars and academic lectures. In recent years, his hospital, North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, was singled out in a study by the Harvard School of Public Health for the achievements of its quality management team, was named by US News and World Reports as having one of the top cardiovascular programs in the country,  and rated the number one metropolitan-area hospital in the country by AARP’s Modern Maturity magazine

•        Practical Approach: This book clearly links methods of measurement with outcomes in patient care, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency.

•       Breadth: In one concise volume, students and professionals can learn fundamentals of data use in health care, what to measure, promoting accountability through measurement, improving organizational processes through measurement, outside factors and drivers in the use of data, report cards -- what they are and how they work, internal factors and drivers in the use of data, and applying data for performance improvement.

•       Ready for Classroom: Will include an instructor's guide with case studies, exercises, chapter outlines, key points for instruction, and other features.