QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY

Reinhold Haux Alfred Winter
Elske Ammenwerth Birgit Brigl
Strategic Information
Management in Hospitals
An Introduction to Hospital
Information Systems
With 106 Illustrations
Status: May 2002 (Version 0.22)
Contents
1INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 SIGNIFICANCE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING IN HOSPITALS 1
1.2 PROG[r]

Reinhold Haux Alfred Winter
Elske Ammenwerth Birgit Brigl
Strategic Information
Management in Hospitals
An Introduction to Hospital
Information Systems
2
2 Basic Concepts
2.1 Introduction
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY
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CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION1.1 Rationale and justificationFor every hospital, patients are the main users. The primary function of the hospital is patient care. It is one of the yardsticks to measure the success of services that it produces. Effectiveness of the hospital relates to provision of good patie[r]

Reinhold Haux Alfred Winter
Elske Ammenwerth Birgit Brigl
Strategic Information
Management in Hospitals
An Introduction to Hospital
Information Systems
3
3 What do Hospital Information Systems look like?
3.1 Introduction
A hospital information system (HIS) was previously defined as the subsystem[r]

INTRODUCTION


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1.1 Background

Patient satisfaction (or customer satisfaction) is a term that is widely used with reference to
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satisfaction’ measurements and interpretation can easily go unquestioned. In[r]

1 Background

Health Policy Analysis Pty Ltd was engaged by the Steering Committee for the
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satisfaction and responsiveness surveys conducted in relation to public hospitals in
Australia. This project had several objectiv[r]

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

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