Implementing Outcome-Based Home Care: A Workbook of OBQI, Care Pathways and Disease Management: .

by Melinda Huffman

Overview

This comprehensive workbook provides the tools necessary to apply outcome-based patient care using OASIS outcomes, OBQI, care pathways, and disease management in a nuts-and-bolts approach. Implementing Outcome-Based Homecare also explains the most critical links between patient outcomes, standards of care, and best practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763715984
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	08/26/2004
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Melinda Huffman is an author, writer, consultant, and presenter with over fifteen years of experience in healthcare outcomes management. Her expertise includes clinical outcome systems development, variance, aggregation, trending and analysis, as well as designing outcomes systems for software application and point of care documentation, homecare administration, quality management and performance improvement, employee orientation and staff development, continuing education, designing outcome-based hospital/homecare strategic alliances, integrating outcomes into PI initiatives, marketing and business development, analyzing physician practice patterns relative to outcomes management, correlating financial and clinical patient outcomes, designing outcomes into software applications, and developing best practice care pathways.