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Health Care Organizations Risk Management: Forms, Checklists & Guidelines
The brand new Second Edition of "Health Care Organizations Risk Forms, Checklists & Guidelines" presents up-to-date approaches to risk management activities across a wide spectrum of health care organizations, from physician practices and hospitals, to ambulatory care centers, and hospice. This resource offers a solid base in standard risk management activities and procedures and it covers risk management activities related to administration, operations, patient care, and departmental procedure.
In one, convenient volume, you'll find newly created forms and tools to assist risk management professionals in such areas credentialing and accreditation - covers nearly all accreditation programs in the U.S.; health information management; infection control; patient safety; disaster management; consent to treatment; claims management.
The new Second Edition has been updated to dozens of sample tools, checklists, and guidelines that can be applied to various health care organizations such as hospitals, physician offices, ambulatory surgery centers, hospice, home health, integrated health systems, and acute care facilities; background information, and a host of case examples that provide the reader with an applied context for the tools, guidelines, and checklists found throughout the manual; practical suggestions in such key, risk-management areas as communications, collaboration with key stakeholders in health care organizations, patient safety, and education; how risk management can work with infection control, safety and security; risk management accreditation and certification programs; new material on disaster preparedness, technology, and information management, all written from the vantage point of the clinical risk manager.
"Health Care Organizations Risk Forms, Checklists & Guidelines" also includes case studies that can be used by risk managers for orientation and in-service education.
In one, convenient volume, you'll find newly created forms and tools to assist risk management professionals in such areas credentialing and accreditation - covers nearly all accreditation programs in the U.S.; health information management; infection control; patient safety; disaster management; consent to treatment; claims management.
The new Second Edition has been updated to dozens of sample tools, checklists, and guidelines that can be applied to various health care organizations such as hospitals, physician offices, ambulatory surgery centers, hospice, home health, integrated health systems, and acute care facilities; background information, and a host of case examples that provide the reader with an applied context for the tools, guidelines, and checklists found throughout the manual; practical suggestions in such key, risk-management areas as communications, collaboration with key stakeholders in health care organizations, patient safety, and education; how risk management can work with infection control, safety and security; risk management accreditation and certification programs; new material on disaster preparedness, technology, and information management, all written from the vantage point of the clinical risk manager.
"Health Care Organizations Risk Forms, Checklists & Guidelines" also includes case studies that can be used by risk managers for orientation and in-service education.
1048 pages, Loose Leaf
First published January 23, 2007
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