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Overview
With this volume, get an in—depth look at hospital—based ambulatory care. Articles on the planning and development of programs and services, emergency services, financial issues, and managerial issues make this volume a "must have" resource for administrators, ambulatory care professionals and students as well. This book is attractively priced in soft cover.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
With this volume, get an in—depth look at hospital—based ambulatory care. Articles on the planning and development of programs and services, emergency services, financial issues, and managerial issues make this volume a "must have" resource for administrators, ambulatory care professionals and students as well. This book is attractively priced in soft cover.
John A. Peterson
The book is a series of articles reprinted from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management that are relevant to practitioners in the field. It includes articles by practitioners and academics. The author attempts to select articles from the Journal that provide practical advice to administrators who are managing or are contemplating developing hospital-based ambulatory care programs. The book raises the issues that practitioners have faced and the solutions that they have entertained. I think that the objectives are largely met. The book is aimed at practitioners. Several highly credible authorities are included among the authors. All of the authors have first-hand knowledge of their topics. The illustrations are typical for journal articles, including several photographs of installations and graphs of research findings. Several of the articles are well academically referenced. In the majority of the practitioner articles, references are less relevant to the experiences being described. The book is a typical cleanly typeset paperback. This book can be useful to administrators and students who need overview of the issues involved in developing ambulatory programs through the hospital setting. It is not a rigorous how-to book, but presents the questions to answer for those planning ambulatory services. It would be especially helpful as preparation for drawing up work tasks for consultants. It would not replace the need for consultants in many of the projects that risk significant financial losses if they were to fail. It is probably less useful in a classroom setting, where more rigorous review articles would be more appropriate.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: John A. Peterson, MD, MaPA(University of Illinois at Chicago)Description: The book is a series of articles reprinted from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management that are relevant to practitioners in the field. It includes articles by practitioners and academics.
Purpose: The author attempts to select articles from the Journal that provide practical advice to administrators who are managing or are contemplating developing hospital-based ambulatory care programs. The book raises the issues that practitioners have faced and the solutions that they have entertained. I think that the objectives are largely met.
Audience: The book is aimed at practitioners. Several highly credible authorities are included among the authors. All of the authors have first-hand knowledge of their topics.
Features: The illustrations are typical for journal articles, including several photographs of installations and graphs of research findings. Several of the articles are well academically referenced. In the majority of the practitioner articles, references are less relevant to the experiences being described. The book is a typical cleanly typeset paperback.
Assessment: This book can be useful to administrators and students who need overview of the issues involved in developing ambulatory programs through the hospital setting. It is not a rigorous how-to book, but presents the questions to answer for those planning ambulatory services. It would be especially helpful as preparation for drawing up work tasks for consultants. It would not replace the need for consultants in many of the projects that risk significant financial losses if they were to fail. It is probably less useful in a classroom setting, where more rigorous review articles would be more appropriate.
John A. Peterson
The book is a series of articles reprinted from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management that are relevant to practitioners in the field. It includes articles by practitioners and academics. The author attempts to select articles from the Journal that provide practical advice to administrators who are managing or are contemplating developing hospital-based ambulatory care programs. The book raises the issues that practitioners have faced and the solutions that they have entertained. I think that the objectives are largely met. The book is aimed at practitioners. Several highly credible authorities are included among the authors. All of the authors have first-hand knowledge of their topics. The illustrations are typical for journal articles, including several photographs of installations and graphs of research findings. Several of the articles are well academically referenced. In the majority of the practitioner articles, references are less relevant to the experiences being described. The book is a typical cleanly typeset paperback. This book can be useful to administrators and students who need overview of the issues involved in developing ambulatory programs through the hospital setting. It is not a rigorous how-to book, but presents the questions to answer for those planning ambulatory services. It would be especially helpful as preparation for drawing up work tasks for consultants. It would not replace the need for consultants in many of the projects that risk significant financial losses if they were to fail. It is probably less useful in a classroom setting, where more rigorous review articles would be more appropriate.Booknews
A collection of articles from the past decade drawn from The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, on program and services planning and development, emergency services, and financial and managerial issues. Topics include AIDS, home care, outpatient surgery, HMO relations, behavioral mapping, artificial intelligence, marketing, and ambulatory visit groups. Includes numerous case studies and tables. For administrators, policy makers, and students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)3 Stars from Doody