An Introduction to the US Health Care SystemSpringer Publishing Company, 25/05/2007 - 328 من الصفحات Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful. |
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... inpatient and outpatient institutional forms . Chapter 5 covers governmental roles and func- tions . Financing is reviewed in chapter 6 , and in chapter 7 the principles and practices of quality assurance are presented. Chapter 8 is ...
... (inpatients), acute care hospitals are the most numerous. In 2003, there were about 5,764 acute care hospitals, with ... inpatient. The most frequently used care is ambulatory, which is care provided to patients other than those in ...
... inpatients. (A small percentage of doctors do not have hospital appointments. How many is not known. Most of them ... inpatient care, there is continuity of care. In many cases requiring surgery, the nonsurgical referring physician ...
... inpatient basis, are virtually the only ones who handle hospitalized patients. In 1996, Wachter and Goldman coined the term hospitalist to describe physi- cians who see patients solely on an inpatient basis. As they noted (Wachter ...
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| 31 | |
Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions | 63 |
Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care | 83 |
Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System | 107 |
Chapter 6 Financing | 129 |
Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance | 167 |
Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care | 205 |
Chapter 9 Health Care Reform | 227 |
Epilogue | 263 |
List of Critical Reports on the US Health Care Delivery System 19272006 | 275 |
Sources of Data | 279 |
Glossary of Terms | 285 |
Index | 295 |