1st Edition
Providing Information for Health A Workbook for Primary Care
By Alan Gillies
Copyright 2003
288 Pages
by
CRC Press
288 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This stimulating and challenging work explores how to place consumers in charge to facilitate good patient care. It provides a coherent account of how customer/supply and demand/supply relationships work and identifies and describes the principles of good medical care and the approaches that can be taken to offer a credible and realistic agenda for change. This book is essential reading for policy... Read more
Historical evolution. Primary care information systems. Coding. Information for health 1: the electronic health record. Information for health 2: PCOs. Information for health 3: patient information. Information for health 4: on-line resources. Information strategy for PCOs: the GPIMM model. Quality assurance. Introduction to clinical governance. The impact of scandal on clinical governance. Decision making in healthcare. Development of evidence-based practice. The context of evidence-based practice in the NHS. Systematic review and meta-analysis. National Service Frameworks. Technological support for evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice within clinical governance. NHS Direct: decision support in action.
Biography
Alan Gillies
