Institutions of confinement: hospitals, asylums, and prisons in Western Europe…
by Finzsch, Norbert, Jütte, Robert, Conference "The Prerogatives of Confinement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Administrative Aspects of the History of Hospitals, Carceral and Penal Institutions in Western Europe and North America", Washington, DC)
fromPublications of the German Historical Institute, Washington…
A major interdisciplinary study of the development of hospitals, insane asylums, and prisons in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent confer…
The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning international bestseller lays out a framework for defining and understanding Lean hospitals. It starts off by examining the challenges faced by hospitals, including rising costs, falling reimbursement rates, employee retention, and pa…
Die Arbeit beschreibt die Abhängigkeiten zwischen den Prozessen des Facility Management (FM) und den Primärprozessen im Krankenhaus in einem ganzheitlichen Modell. Die Kenntnis über die Leistungszusammenhänge der beiden Ebenen bildet die Grundlage für eine verursachergerechte Ve…
"Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals explains how to use tested LSS methods and tools to achieve the goals of better, faster, and cheaper healthcare. These strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge, examining key a…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
The U.S. hospital embodies society's hope for itself--a technological bastion standing between us and death. What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book sho…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
