Part One: Continuous Quality Improvement (Using Plan, Do, Check, Act ) And Total Quality Management Tools Case 1: West Florida Regional: An Early Application Case 2: Holtz Children's Hospital: Reducing Central Line Infections Case 3: Clemson's Nursing Home: Working with the State Quality Improvement Organization's Restraint Reduction Initiative Case 4: CQI in Malaria Control in Ghana Part Two: Organizing For Continuous Quality Improvement Case 5: The Intermountain Way to Positively Impact Costs Case 6: Planning a Transition: The Chief Quality and Safety Officer Case 7: Dawn Meadow Hospital: Selecting Aggregate Quality Measures for the Hospital Board Case 8: Dr. Charles Bethe, DO, Network Med.Dir. Part Three: Educational And Social Marketing Applications In Continuous Quality Improvement Case 9: Forthright Medical Center: Social Marketing and the Surgical Checklist Case 10: Princes Court Hospital: A Private Malaysian Health Care Institution Prepares for a Pandemic of Influenza A (H1N1) Case 11: Financial Analysis and Quality Management at Patriot County, Ohio Case 12: Quality In Pediatric Subspecialty Part Four: Assessment, Incentives And Regulation Case 13: Folic Acid Forification Around the World Case 14: Continuing Improvement for the National Health Service Quality and Outcomes Framework Case 15: North Carolina Local Health Departments Accreditation Program Case 16: The Lewis Blackman Hospital Patient Safety Act: It's Hard to Kill a Healthy 15-Year-Old Case 17: Elk Hills Community Medical Center: Revising the Baldrige Award Part Five: Process Improvement Research Case 18: Stent vs. By-pass: Expanding the Evidence Base Case 19: Cal Mason, COO, Metro Children's Hospital: Planned Experimentation Case 20: Houston Medical Center Bed Tower: Quality and the Built Environment.
Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care : A Global Casebook