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1. Managing for Health

   Edited by David J. Hunter

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   Expertly mixing theory with practice, this text makes a unique and important contribution to the area of health management. Through examples and case studies drawn from across Europe, Managing for Health explores the management challenge in public health policy and offers pointers to equip...

   Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge
2. Performance Management in Healthcare

   Improving Patient Outcomes, An Integrated Approach

   Edited by Jan Walburg, Helen Bevan, John Wilderspin, Karin Lemmens

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   This important new text demonstrates a step-by-step approach to understanding and improving performance management in healthcare organizations. It discusses the relevance of performance management to disease management and the professional development of the discipline, debates topical issues...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
3. Leadership in Health Care

   A European Perspective

   By Neil Goodwin

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   This unique text is the first to explore leadership in the context of healthcare systems across Europe. It investigates leadership and management learning against the backdrop of increasing European parliamentary influence, the expansion of EU membership, and the increasing number of patients,...

   Published September 28th 2005 by Routledge
4. Health Operations Management

   Patient Flow Logistics in Health Care

   By Jan Vissers, Roger Beech

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   Health operations management is defined as ‘the analysis, design, planning, and control of all of the steps necessary to provide a service for a client’. In other words, it is concerned with identifying the needs of clients, usually patients, and designing and delivering services to meet their...

   Published August 24th 2005 by Routledge
5. Health Information Management

   Integrating Information and Communication Technology in Health Care Work

   By Marc Berg

   Series: Routledge Health Management

   In almost all Western countries, concerted efforts are made to stimulate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care. Yet the number of success stories are few and the frustrations many. In this key textbook, readers are introduced to the challenges, the lessons learned...

   Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge