Quality improvement (QI) principles are increasingly important in every area of today's healthcare, encompassing efforts to make healthcare delivery safer, more effective, patient-centered, timely, equitable, and efficient. Perioperative Quality Improvement provides up-to-date, easy-to-read guidance for perioperative clinicians on this critical topic. Each chapter covers a pertinent area of QI in the perioperative setting, focusing on both concepts and implementation. Written and edited by key international opinion leaders in the field, this text is a relevant, concise resource for anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurse anesthetists, and hospitalists-anyone involved in perioperative medicine regardless of specialty area. Explains concepts related to understanding the tools and techniques used in improving the quality of care, establishing a culture of quality, prioritizing areas of improvement, collecting and analyzing data, communicating, motivating people to change, and performing ongoing evaluations. Covers key topics such as patient-centered care, equity, shared decision making, process mapping, and sustainability. Addresses the critical areas of structure, process and outcome with a focus on perioperative care and relevant case studies. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

About the Author
Carol J. Peden is an Adjunct Profesor in Anesthesiology at both the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, California and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement, University of Bath in Bath, Somerset, UK. Michael Engelsbe is the Cyrenus G. Darling Sr., MD and Cyrenus G. Darling Jr., MD Professor of Surgery within the Section of Transplantation Surgery at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Reviews
"This book provides an encyclopedic approach to all aspects of perioperative safety, efficiency, quality, and quality improvement. It covers a wealth of topics, many of which are relevant to other aspects of surgical practice. Purchase of the paper copy includes access to an accompanying ebook, which is highly portable and fully searchable." (c)Doody's Review Service, 2023, Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)



Book Information
ISBN 9780323833998
Author Carol J. Peden
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publisher Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Weight(grams) 730g