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9780727918338

Evaluating the Processes of Neonatal Intensive Care : Thinking Upstream to Improve Downstream Outcomes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780727918338

  • ISBN10:

    0727918338

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-08
  • Publisher: B M J Books

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Summary

An essential guide for evaluating outcomes and improving practice in the neonatal intensive care unit - an aspect of neonatal intensive care that is not covered in standard texts. Written by a neonatologist with experience in outcomes research, the book engages Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) workers with vitally important questions about their work: What is a good NICU? Could you achieve better results? How completely can you characterize the results of your NICU?

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(10)
Part 1: Systems 11(58)
1 Systems and our work
13(10)
2 The work of the NICU
23(10)
3 Working with process mapping: an example
33(5)
4 Activity without value: muda
38(6)
5 Diagnostic testing and muda
44(10)
6 Needless complexity in our care processes
54(3)
7 More tools for "drilling down"
57(12)
Part 2: Data 69(36)
8 Measuring outcomes: What? How?
71(13)
9 Characterizing variation in our measurements
84(11)
10 Understanding variation in our measurements
95(10)
Part 3: Action 105(36)
11 Benchmarks and benchmarking
107(8)
12 Keeping track of what you decided to measure
115(10)
13 Change and people
125(11)
14 The gap is never closed completely
136(5)
Appendix: A checklist for thinking about NICU outcomes research 141(5)
Index 146

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