TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mount,Charles
AU  - Inozu,Bahadir
AU  - Chauncey,Dan
AU  - Kamataris,Vickie
TI  - Performance Improvement for Healthcare : : Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management 
T2  - McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine
SN  - 9780071761628 (print)
AV  - RA399.A3 
U1  - 362.1068 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, N.Y. : 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education LLC., 
KW  - Medical care
KW  - United States
KW  - Quality control
KW  - Six sigma (Quality control standard)
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Hospital Administration
KW  - methods
KW  - Total Quality Management
KW  - organization & administration
KW  - Hospital Administration/methods
KW  - Total Quality Management/methods
KW  - Total Quality Management/organization & administration
N1  - "A Lange medical book."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Chapter 1: Performance Improvement in Healthcare -- Chapter 2: Constraints Management Applications in Healthcare -- Chapter 3: An Integrated Approach to Deploying Performance Improvement -- Chapter 4: Assessment -- Chapter 5: Planning for Deployment -- Chapter 6: Application of the Right Tool to the Right Problem -- Chapter 7: Sustainment -- Appendix: Reliability and Validity of Assessment Measures -- References; Also issued in Online and PDF version
N2  - This unique guide shows how to apply some of the most popular improvement methods (TOC, Lean, Six Sigma) to the field of healthcare for continuous process improvement with system-wide impact--from initiation to self-sufficiency
UR  - http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=2321
ER  -