Crossing the Quality Chasm

Crossing the Quality Chasm
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2001-07-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309132967

Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

The Fair Use Privilege in Copyright Law

The Fair Use Privilege in Copyright Law
Author: William F. Patry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1985
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This treatise traces the historical development of the concept of fair use and discusses its application to parody, criticism, fictional characters, public figures, biographies, off-air taping, photocopying, and the First Amendment.

Autophagy

Autophagy
Author: Daniel Klionsky
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2003-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1498713270

Starting in the early 1970s, a type of programmed cell death called apoptosis began to receive attention. Over the next three decades, research in this area continued at an accelerated rate. In the early 1990s, a second type of programmed cell death, autophagy, came into focus. Autophagy has been studied in mammalian cells for many years. The recen

Michigan reports

Michigan reports
Author: Michigan. Supreme Court
Publisher:
Total Pages: 908
Release: 1965
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders

Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders
Author: Tandy Miller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001-05-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780792367499

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Early Intervention in Psychiatric Disorders, Prague, Czech Republic, October 22-27, 1998

Obsessed by a Dream

Obsessed by a Dream
Author: Aashild Sørheim
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 303026338X

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better known. The first of Widerøe's many pioneering contributions in the field of accelerator physics was the betatron. He later went on to build the first radiation therapy machine, an advance that would eventually revolutionize cancer treatment. Hospitals worldwide installed his machine, and today's modern radiation treatment equipment is based on his inventions. Widerøe's story also includes a fair share of drama, particularly during World War II when both Germans and the Allies vied for his collaboration. Widerøe held leading positions in multinational industry groups and was one of the consultants for building the world's largest nuclear laboratory, CERN, in Switzerland. He gained over 200 patents, received several honorary doctorates and a number of international awards. The author, a professional writer and maker of TV documentaries, has gained access to hitherto restricted archives in several countries, which provided a wealth of new material and insights, in particular in relation to the war years. She tells here a gripping and illuminating story.