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Managing Patient Flow E-Book Package (English)

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Virtual boxed set saves you money! Get two patient flow e-books to increase quality and safety edited by Dr. Eugene Litvak, a world-renowned leader in hospital operations redesign.

April 2019. English version.

Package includes two PDF books:

Optimizing Patient Flow: Advanced Strategies for Managing Variability to Enhance Access, Quality, and Safety
Managing Patient Flow in Hospitals: Strategies and Solutions, Second Edition

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Health care executives, CEOs, board members, physicians and medical officers, nurses and nurse executives, quality and process improvement managers, productivity managers, and emergency department (ED), surgery, critical or intensive care (ICU), and nursing operations professionals can learn to master the theory and practice of patient flow with this virtual boxed set from Eugene Litvak, PhD, a world-renowned leader in hospital operations redesign. They will benefit from this e-book package pairing the 5-star Optimizing Patient Flow: Advanced Strategies for Managing Variability to Enhance Access, Quality, and Safetywith the classic Managing Patient Flow in Hospitals: Strategies and Solutions, 2^nd edition. We’ve bundled these e-books to provide health care leaders with scientifically grounded methods to optimally manage patient flow. Buy them together and receive 10% off!

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Table of Contents

OPTIMIZING PATIENT FLOW: ADVANCED STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING VARIABILITY TO ENHANCE ACCESS, QUALITY, AND SAFETY

Part I: CEO Perspectives: Committing to Optimized Patient Flow

Chapter 1: How We Improved Care and Added Millions to the Bottom Line: An Outsider’s Perspective: James M. Anderson, JD.

Chapter 2: Using Operations Management to Reduce Variability in Surgical Demand: Jack Kitts, MD

Chapter 3: A Proactive Initiative to Improve OR Scheduling, William C Rupp, MD as interviewed by Hakmeng Kang, MBA

Chapter 4: Using Science and Design to Improve Patient Flow: John B. Chessare, MD, MPH, FACHE

Part II: The Mechanics of Flow

Chapter 5: Reduction and Management of Variability in Health Care Delivery: Julia L. Krol, RN, BSN, MBA, and Michael C. Long, MD

Chapter 6: Using Variability Methodology to Improve Patient Flow: Three Projects Offering Tangible Results: Julia L. Krol, RN, BSN, MBA, and Michael C. Long, MD

Chapter 7: Variability Methodology: Tools & Techniques: Cheri Ward, MPH, DPT, and Kristy Zhou, BSc, BComm, MM in Operations Research

Part III: How We Did It: The Case Studies

Chapter 8: Right Focus, Right Solution: How Reducing Variability in Admission and Discharge Improves Hospital Capacity and Flow: Peter Viccellio, MD, FACEP; Katherine Ardalan Hochman, MD, FHM; Peter P. Semczuk, DDS, MPH; and Carolyn Santora, MS, RN, NEA-BC, CSHA, CPHQ

Chapter 9: New Jersey’s Collaborative on Patient Throughput: Mary A. Ditri, DHA, MA, CHCC; Aline M. Holmes, DNP, MSN, RN; Patricia A. McNamee, RN, MS; Robert G. Lahita, MD, PhD; and Elizabeth Ryan, JD.

Chapter 10: Rightsizing Inpatient Medical Units: Developing Telemetry ADT Criteria: Robert G. Lahita, MD, PhD, FACP, MACR, FRCP, and Jennifer Crist-Muñoz, APN-C

Chapter 11: Standardizing Admission, Transfer, and Discharge Processes to Reduce Artificial and Clinical Variability: Daniel J Beckett, MD, FRCP, MBChB(Hons), MSc., BSc (Hons); David A. McDonald ProfD, BSc (Hons), MCSP; Patrick Rafferty, BN; and Martin Hopkins, MA(Cantab), MBA

Part IV: Whole System Flow: Beyond the Hospital Setting

Chapter 12: Bottlenecks in Flow to Post-Acute Care: Alan Forster, MD, FRCPC, MSc; Renate Ilse, RN, DHA; Daniel Kobewka, MD, MSc; and Kednapa Thavorn, PhD

Chapter 13: Pulling Out All the Stops: Delivering Whole System Flow: David Fillingham, MA (Cantab), MBA, CBE; Bryan Jones, PhD; and Penny Pereira, MA (Cantab)

MANAGING PATIENT FLOW IN HOSPITALS: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS, SECOND EDITION

Foreword

Susan Dentzer

Introduction

Eugene Litvak, Ph.D.

Part I: Tutorials

Chapter 1: The Problem of Patient Flow

Marilyn E. Rudolph, R.N., B.S.N., M.B.A.

Chapter 2: Impact of Patient Flow Issues on Nursing Staff and Patients

Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.; Anne Miller, Ph.D., R.N.
Chapter 3: Assessment of Patient Flow

Brad Prenney, M.S., M.P.A.
Chapter 4: Strategies for Managing Patient Flow

Sandeep Green Vaswani, M.B.A.; Michael C. Long, M.D.; Brad Prenney, M.S., M.P.A.;
Eugene Litvak, Ph.D.
Chapter 5: Measurement and Evaluation of Patient Flow: The Right Data, Measures, and Analyses

Kathleen Kerwin Fuda, Ph.D.

part II: Case Studies

Chapter 6: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: Redesigning Perioperative Flow Using Operations Management Tools to Improve Access and Safety
Frederick C. Ryckman, M.D.; Elena Adler, M.D.; Amy M. Anneken, M.S.; Cindi A. Bedinghaus, R.N., M.S.N.; Peter J. Clayton, M.P.A.; Kathryn R. Hays, M.S.N., R.N.; Brenda Lee; Jacquelyn W. Morillo-Delerme, M.D.; Pamela J. Schoettker, M.S.; Paul A. Yelton; Uma R. Kotagal, M.B.B.S., M.Sc.

Chapter 7: Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Anaheim: Optimizing Patient Flow

Judy Kibler, R.N., M.Ed.; Marlean Free, Ph.D.; Maria Lee, Ph.D., M.B.A.; Kirk Rinella, M.B.A., R.C.P., M.B.A.; Judy White; Ed Ellison, M.D.; Julie Miller-Phipps; Lisa Schilling, R.N., M.P.H.

Chapter 8: Improving Hospitalwide Patient Flow at Northwest Community Hospital

Barbara Weintraub, R.N., M.S.N., M.P.H., A.P.N., C.E.N.; Kirk Jensen, M.D., M.B.A.,
F.A.C.E.P.; Karen Colby, R.N., M.S., C.N.A.A.-B.C.

Index

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