The Challenge to Change : : Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom / / Rebecca Kolins Givan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Givan, Rebecca Kolins,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 tables

There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Health Care Systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Lifetime of Change
• Chapter 2. Turbulence in the Two Systems
• Chapter 3. Measuring and Rewarding Performance: Imposing Change from above in the United Kingdom
• Chapter 4. Regulating the Front Line from Above: The Joint Commission and Hospital Regulation in the United States
• Chapter 5. Pushing Back from the Front Line: Staff Responses to Privatization in the National Health Service
• Chapter 6. Building a Culture of Safety from the Front Line in the United States
• Chapter 7. From the Health Care Workplace to the Health Care System: Learning from the United States and the United Kingdom
• References
• Index