Jacm on Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care / Edition 1

by Seth B. Goldsmith

Overview

With this volume, get an in-depth look at hospital-based ambulatory ca re. Articles on the planning and development of programs and services, emergency services, financial issues, and managerial issues make this volume a "must have" resource for administrators, ambulatory care pro fessionals and students as well. This book is attractively priced in s oft cover.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834206731
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	12/21/1994
Series:	Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Goldsmith, Seth B., ScD, JD (Univ of Massachusetts)

The contributors represent the specialties of health care management, economics, ambulatory care, and marketing. Most come from universities, hospitals, and private research centers in the U.S. Institutions prominently represented include Univ of Massachusetts, Harvard, Univ of Michigan, Baylor, and Univ of Houston.

Table of Contents

Contents: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES * Developing an Ambulatory Care Program for AIDS Patients * Outpatient Surgery: An Institutional and Community Impact Analysis * Planning and Design of Children’ s Health Care Facilities * Changing Times, Changing Theories: The Effects of HMOs on Hospital Usage and Ambulatory Care * EMERGENCY SERVICES * Health Care Reform and Emergency Department Services * Emergency Department Organization and Management: A Checklist of Action Items * Behavioral Mapping To Plan a New Emergency Center * Strategies and Opportunities in an Emergency Department Subacute Unit * FINANCIAL ISSUES * Pricing Strategies for Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care Services: Case Study of an Ambulatory Surgery Program * Advanced Pricing Strategies of Hospitals in Contracting with Managed Care Organizations * The Financial Performance of Hospital-Sponsored Primary Care Group Practice * MANAGERIAL ISSUES * Marketing Health Care Services to Asian Ethnic Groups: Suggestions for Community Hospitals * Actions Steps for Effectively Managing Ambulatory Surgery Under Outpatient Prospective Payment * Packaging Outpatient Services: The PACs Demonstration Experience * Building Information Linkages between the Physician and Hospital * Compensating and Providing Incentives for Academic Physicians: Balancing Earning, Clinical, Research, Teaching, and Administrative Responsibilities

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: John A. Peterson, MD, MaPA (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: The book is a series of articles reprinted from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management that are relevant to practitioners in the field. It includes articles by practitioners and academics.
Purpose: The author attempts to select articles from the Journal that provide practical advice to administrators who are managing or are contemplating developing hospital-based ambulatory care programs. The book raises the issues that practitioners have faced and the solutions that they have entertained. I think that the objectives are largely met.
Audience: The book is aimed at practitioners. Several highly credible authorities are included among the authors. All of the authors have first-hand knowledge of their topics.
Features: The illustrations are typical for journal articles, including several photographs of installations and graphs of research findings. Several of the articles are well academically referenced. In the majority of the practitioner articles, references are less relevant to the experiences being described. The book is a typical cleanly typeset paperback.
Assessment: This book can be useful to administrators and students who need overview of the issues involved in developing ambulatory programs through the hospital setting. It is not a rigorous how-to book, but presents the questions to answer for those planning ambulatory services. It would be especially helpful as preparation for drawing up work tasks for consultants. It would not replace the need for consultants in many of the projects that risk significant financial losses if they were to fail. It is probably less useful in a classroom setting, where more rigorous review articles would be more appropriate.

Doody's Review Service

3 Stars from Doody

The book is a series of articles reprinted from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management that are relevant to practitioners in the field. It includes articles by practitioners and academics. The author attempts to select articles from the Journal that provide practical advice to administrators who are managing or are contemplating developing hospital-based ambulatory care programs. The book raises the issues that practitioners have faced and the solutions that they have entertained. I think that the objectives are largely met. The book is aimed at practitioners. Several highly credible authorities are included among the authors. All of the authors have first-hand knowledge of their topics. The illustrations are typical for journal articles, including several photographs of installations and graphs of research findings. Several of the articles are well academically referenced. In the majority of the practitioner articles, references are less relevant to the experiences being described. The book is a typical cleanly typeset paperback. This book can be useful to administrators and students who need overview of the issues involved in developing ambulatory programs through the hospital setting. It is not a rigorous how-to book, but presents the questions to answer for those planning ambulatory services. It would be especially helpful as preparation for drawing up work tasks for consultants. It would not replace the need for consultants in many of the projects that risk significant financial losses if they were to fail. It is probably less useful in a classroom setting, where more rigorous review articles would be more appropriate.

John A. Peterson

A collection of articles from the past decade drawn from The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, on program and services planning and development, emergency services, and financial and managerial issues. Topics include AIDS, home care, outpatient surgery, HMO relations, behavioral mapping, artificial intelligence, marketing, and ambulatory visit groups. Includes numerous case studies and tables. For administrators, policy makers, and students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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