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Overview
Poor healthcare quality is a public health emergency. The Institute of Medicine called the substantial gulf between the vision of ideal care and the reality of what most individuals receive a quality chasm. The Quality Solution enlightens, informs, and challenges professionals in public health, medicine, health administration, and health law to bridge this chasm and to participate in the transformation of the healthcare system through the science of healthcare quality-measurement and improvement. Through the contributions of a knowledgeable and experienced panel of authors, The Quality Solution profiles initiatives of the key healthcare stakeholders—consumers, payers, healthcare providers, and employers—and how they can work together to improve healthcare quality.
Synopsis
Declaring that improving the quality of health care in the US is a national emergency, editors Nash and Goldfarb (colleagues at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson U., Philadelphia) and their contributors call on the fields of public health, health administration, medicine, health law, and public policy to participate in the system's transformation. Their text offers an overview of current problems and inadequacies; the measures and tools of quality improvement; the role of stakeholders including physicians, employers, and patients; and future possibilities offered by information technology, medical education, and other realms. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Paul H. Keckley, PhD(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
Description:This is an excellent summary of key topics pertinent to the field of quality improvement in healthcare. It covers different perspectives useful in having a comprehensive perspective on quality improvement.
Purpose:The book is a collection of articles that lays out the conceptual framework for considering quality improvement and then various perspectives. The strength of the book is in the first three chapters where the conceptual framework provides one of the most thorough and helpful summaries I've encountered. The authors do an admirable job providing a historic framework in addition to a contemporary perspective that's quite well done.
Audience:This book appears to target health industry researchers and perhaps quality/risk managers in provider settings.
Features:The book has four main sections: (1) a framework for quality improvement that provides a helpful backdrop for understanding basic concepts and themes; (2) measures and tools for quality improvement that provide a more technical perspective; (3) quality improvement perspectives of key stakeholders -- i.e., providers, payers, et al.; and (4) a section about possible public policy and related implications of quality improvement. The first section is by far the strongest, providing a thorough, succinct and highly useful historic framework for the book.
Assessment:This is an excellent resource for provider organizations and health services researchers to use in understanding the landscape for quality improvement.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Paul H. Keckley, PhD(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Description: This is an excellent summary of key topics pertinent to the field of quality improvement in healthcare. It covers different perspectives useful in having a comprehensive perspective on quality improvement.
Purpose: The book is a collection of articles that lays out the conceptual framework for considering quality improvement and then various perspectives. The strength of the book is in the first three chapters where the conceptual framework provides one of the most thorough and helpful summaries I've encountered. The authors do an admirable job providing a historic framework in addition to a contemporary perspective that's quite well done.
Audience: This book appears to target health industry researchers and perhaps quality/risk managers in provider settings.
Features: The book has four main sections: (1) a framework for quality improvement that provides a helpful backdrop for understanding basic concepts and themes; (2) measures and tools for quality improvement that provide a more technical perspective; (3) quality improvement perspectives of key stakeholders — i.e., providers, payers, et al.; and (4) a section about possible public policy and related implications of quality improvement. The first section is by far the strongest, providing a thorough, succinct and highly useful historic framework for the book.
Assessment: This is an excellent resource for provider organizations and health services researchers to use in understanding the landscape for quality improvement.
From The Critics
Reviewer: Paul H. Keckley, PhD(Vanderbilt University Medical Center)Description: This is an excellent summary of key topics pertinent to the field of quality improvement in healthcare. It covers different perspectives useful in having a comprehensive perspective on quality improvement.
Purpose: The book is a collection of articles that lays out the conceptual framework for considering quality improvement and then various perspectives. The strength of the book is in the first three chapters where the conceptual framework provides one of the most thorough and helpful summaries I've encountered. The authors do an admirable job providing a historic framework in addition to a contemporary perspective that's quite well done.
Audience: This book appears to target health industry researchers and perhaps quality/risk managers in provider settings.
Features: The book has four main sections: (1) a framework for quality improvement that provides a helpful backdrop for understanding basic concepts and themes; (2) measures and tools for quality improvement that provide a more technical perspective; (3) quality improvement perspectives of key stakeholders — i.e., providers, payers, et al.; and (4) a section about possible public policy and related implications of quality improvement. The first section is by far the strongest, providing a thorough, succinct and highly useful historic framework for the book.
Assessment: This is an excellent resource for provider organizations and health services researchers to use in understanding the landscape for quality improvement.