Book Review: Health Care Delivery Systems

Book Review: 'Health Humanities and Applied Literature'

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...

Health Care Delivery Systems—Evaluation Criteria

In Health Care Delivery Systems-Evaluation Criteria Dr. Lapatra attempts to study evaluation criteria of existing health care delivery systems and apply the technology of operations research and systems analysis to its evaluation. He attempts to show how he can "apply systems concepts to the study of the U.S. health system" with an ultimate goal of defining the necessary variables to improve ou...

Systems Approach and Systems Engineering Applied to Health Care: Improving Patient Safety and Health Care Delivery

354 INTRODUCTION The delivery of safe and high-quality health care has reached a crisis in the United States in terms of personal loss due to preventable errors, as well as economic loss. Estimates of the economic costs in the intensive care unit (ICU), which represents just a portion of the health care system at large, approach nearly 1% of the gross domestic product.1 A natural impulse to add...

Mental Health Book Review Index

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