Health Care Administration

by Wolper, Lawrence F.

• ISBN13: 9780763757915
• ISBN10: 0763757918
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: JONES & BARTLETT PUB

Summary

With a solid focus on health systems, the Fifth Edition of Health Care Administration presents essential facets and topics in the administration of health care. With a variety of highly-esteemed contributors, the Fifth Edition is filled with updated information and new points of view. Chapters have been updated and/or added.

Table of Contents

The ôCorporateö View of Organized Delivery Systems	p. 1
International Health Care: A Twelve-Country Comparison	p. 3
Organized Delivery Systems	p. 67
Legal Implications of Business Arrangements in the Healthcare Industry	p. 107
Financial Management of Organized Healthcare Delivery Systems	p. 183
Labor and Employment Laws Applicable to Organized Delivery Systems	p. 247
The Management of Nursing Services	p. 307
Marketing Healthcare Services	p. 325
Healthcare Information Technologies in an Era of Healthcare Reform: A Complex Adaptive System Perspective	p. 359
Management Engineering	p. 401
Ambulatory Care	p. 433
Bioterrorism Preparedness	p. 459
The Hospital in an Organized Delivery System	p. 485
The History of Hospitals	p. 487
Laboratories	p. 499
Pharmacy	p. 533
Material and Resource Management	p. 573
Facility Design and Planning for Ambulatory Care Centers	p. 607
Quality and Patient Safety	p. 653
Physician Practice: Organization and Operation	p. 675
Implementing a Physician Practice Compliance Program	p. 709
Index	p. 753
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