Focused operations management for health services organizations /

Main Author: Ronen, Boʻaz
Other Authors: Pliskin, Joseph S.,, Pass, Shimeon,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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100 1 |a Ronen, Boʻaz 
245 1 |a Focused operations management for health services organizations /  |c Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin, with Shimeon Pass ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick. 
250 1 |a 1st ed. 
260 1 |a San Francisco, CA :  |b Jossey-Bass,  |c c2006. 
300 1 |a xxvii, 354 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339) and index. 
505 1 |a The modern health care and business environment -- Principles of management in a dynamic environment -- The Pareto rule, focusing table, and focusing matrix -- Management by constraints: the focusing steps of the theory of constraints -- Management by constraints in a bottleneck environment -- Management by constraints when the market is the constraint -- Focused current reality tree -- Resolving managerial conflicts -- The efficiencies syndrome -- The evils of long response times -- Reducing response times -- The complete kit concept -- Performance measures and managerial control -- Effects of fluctuations, variability, and uncertainty on the system -- The evils of traditional cost accounting -- Marketing, costing, and pricing considerations in decision-making processes -- Quality management and process control -- Creating value for health care organizations -- Case study: the emergency department at Guard Mountain Hospital -- Our managerial credo. 
650 1 |a Health services administration 
700 1 |a Pliskin, Joseph S., 
700 1 |a Pass, Shimeon, 
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