Managerial epidemiology : cases and concepts

Acknowledgments
Part 1: Concepts, Principles, and Applications
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Managerial Epidemiology
Chapter 2: Population Health
Chapter 3: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Chapter 4: Measuring and Interpreting Morbidity
Chapter 5: Healthcare Planning and Needs Assessment
Chapter 6: Quality of Care Measurement
Chapter 7: Mortality and Risk Adjustment
Part II: Epidemiology and Financial Management
Chapter 8: Epidemiology and Healthcare Financial Management
Chapter 9: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Part III: Evidence-Based Management and Medicine
Chapter 10: Case-Control Studies
Chapter 11: Cohort Studies
Chapter 12: Randomized Clinical Trials
Chapter 13: Confounding, Effect Modification, and Bias
Chapter 14: Clinical Epidemiology and Decision Making
Chapter 15: Epidemiology and Leadership
Part IV: Capstone Cases
Capstone Case A: Clostridium Difficile Outbreak
Capstone Case B: Cardiovascular Disease
Capstone Case C: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Capstone Case D: Needs Assessment for Stroke Services
Capstone Case E: Quality of Care in Six Boston Hospitals
Capstone Case F: A Comparison of Mortality Rates Using Standardization
Capstone Case G: Risk Factors and Capitation Rates
Capstone Case H: Cost-Effectiveness of Type 2 Diabetes
Capstone Case I: Sleep Duration and Cardiovascular Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study
Capstone Case J: Obesity and Endometrial Cancer: Case-Control and Prospective Cohort Studies
Capstone Case K: Vitamin E, Selenium, and Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Capstone Case L: Abortion and Breast Cancer: Confounding, Bias, and Effect Modification
Capstone Case M: Clinical Decision Making: Acute Appendicitis in Children
Capstone Case N: Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care
Capstone Case O: Using Leadership and Managerial Epidemiology to Lead a Hospital Through Crisis
Glossary
Appendix 1: Answers for End-of-Chapter Case Exercises
Appendix 2: Important Formulas
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor