Healthcare Economic Management (PB)

The text of this unique book is divided into three sections.
Section 1 deals with healthcare and economic intricacies, including the scope of health economics, need for healthcare economic research, health reforms, economic values of the professionals, nursing-sensitive quality indicators and patient care, what a patient as a consumer should know, nursing intellectual capital theory, hospital cost and nursing cost offset, and how to economize health services expenditure.
Section 2encompasses healthcare delivery system and management, hospital services, including accident and emergency, outpatient and inpatient services, organization of patient care in the ward, operation theatre, intensive care units, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, blood transfusion, pediatrics, diabetes, dental, IVF the clinic, rehabilitation, oncology, psychiatry, public health, hospital-acquired infection, occupational health and safety, biomedical equipment maintenance, central sterile supplies.
Section 3 deals with an introduction to nursing records, nursing service and organization, nursing professional documentation including designing hospital nursing administration activity fields, and physical and occupational therapies, optometry, audiometric, medical psychology, nutrition and quality assurance program, potential issues of healthcare economics, Indian healthcare economic management system, costreducing innovations in healthcare, increased healthcare cost, concluding the summary of healthcare economic management and Annexures in the end support by health economics terminology definitions, the definition of medical specialties, medical terms used in healthcare management, standardized medical abbreviations with single meaning and bibliography.