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Measuring Patient Outcomes.
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Marie T Nolan and Victoria Mock (Pp 248; £23.00). California: Sage Publications, 2000. 0 7619 1505 2
Over the past 20 or more years most western health care systems have been looking for ways to address patient and population outcomes rather than merely structure and process issues. The challenges, though, are many, including problems with the validity and reliability of measures and indicators. For health care providers the greatest challenge is probably to make the assessment of patient outcomes both meaningful and to result in improvements in clinical practice.
This book aims to offer a practical primer to “advance practice nurses everywhere” to measure and improve patient outcomes. The authors …