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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Accreditation & Compliance > Cost Effective Performance Improvement in Ambulatory Care Cost-Effective Performance Improvement in Ambulatory Care  Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Softcover: 175 pages ISBN 0866887881 JCAHO December 2002 Price: $55.00 (Amazon's prices are always equal to, or less than, JCAHO's prices)   Save money. Improve performance. Contradictory goals? Not any longer. Here you have JCAHO advice to help you achieve both. Ambulatory care organizations are under increasing pressure from patients, payers and competitors to cut costs, while maintaining and improving the quality of their services. Cost-Effective Performance Improvement offers a practical look at performance improvement tools and valuable lessons based on the Joint Commission's performance improvement (PI) standards that will show you that high quality and high cost aren't necessarily linked. View sample pages. With real-world case studies in various ambulatory care settings as illustrations, you and your staff will learn how to: evaluate the cost-effectiveness of competing performance improvement activities, make the most judicious and efficient use of your limited resources, sustain your cost-effective improvement efforts. You'll learn the most cost-effective ways to: create a successful PI team, define issues to measure and improve, retrieve the best possible data, assess and analyze that data, and implement and maintain change. JCAHO evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the US. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, the Joint Commission has maintained state-of-the-art standards that focus on improving the quality and safety of care provided by health care organizations. The Joint Commission's comprehensive accreditation process evaluates an organization's compliance with these standards and other accreditation requirements. (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore /