Improving Clinical Practice: Total Quality Management and the Physician

Improving Clinical Practice describes the diverse scientific methodologies that TQM employs, details practical applications of TQM as used in a number of clinical settings, and outlines the opportunities and challenges facing health care professionals who apply the principles of TQM. Written by the leading practitioners in the field, Improving Clinical Practice includes information on methods that provide health care professionals access to more rapid and reliable information about their patients, tools for involving patients more extensively in their own care, TQM techniques for care of patients with hypertension and other chronic illnesses, potential uses of TQM for improving surgical technique, and recommendations for making TQM function successfully in a health care setting.