A prolific author, Patrice Spath has written or edited more than 25 books. In addition to the books she writes and publishes through Brown-Spath & Associates, several of her books are published by other companies.


Listed below is a book written by Patrice Spath that is available for purchase through Health Administration Press. Phone: (312) 424-2800

 

Leading Your Healthcare Organization to Excellence: A Guide to Using the Baldrige Criteria
ISBN 1-56793-233-9
Softbound; 344 Pages

This book can help health care leaders focus the efforts of the organization on achieving real improvement. The well-known Baldrige Criteria are used as a road map for increasing care quality within the organization. Rather than an ill-defined management fad, the Baldrige Criteria provide an efficient outline for quality improvement that has delivered proven results across many industries, including healthcare. The criteria helps leaders pinpoint trouble spots and priorize improvement activities. The book's many useful tooks, including key points, self-assessments, and reflections, can be used to adapt the Baldrige model to the specific needs of the organization. Positive changes in the attitudes, services, processes, measurement, planning, leadership, and patient satisfaction within a health care organization can all be inspired by the Baldrige Criteria.

 

Listed below is a book edited by Patrice Spath that available for purchase through Health Forum, AHA Press. Phone: ((800) 242-2626
     

Partnering with Patients to Reduce Medical Errors
ISBN: 1-55648-314-7
Hardcover; 198 Pages

This book teaches health care professionals how to guide and motivate patients and their family members to be involved in making the patient care experience safer. Partnering with Patients contains a multitude of tools that will help practitioners learn new skills, behaviors and attitudes for creating effective partnerships with all patients - from those not accustomed to participating in decisions affecting their health to those who aggressively seek out information, and everyone in between. Foreword by David B. Nash, MD, MBA.

Listed below are books edited or written by Patrice Spath that available for purchase through Jossey-Bass. Phone: (877) 762-2974
     

Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations: A Systems Approach to Successful Training
ISBN: 0-787-95874-3
Hardcover; 250 Pages

In Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations, Patrice L. Spath - a national authority on health care training - and a stellar panel of health care experts offer hospital administrators, managers, and training specialists a variety of techniques that they can implement to provide cost-efficient staff orientation, training, and continuing education. This book acts as a field guide for managers and staff education professionals who must make informed decisions about which staff training and education strategies are best for their organization.

Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety
ISBN: 0-787-95596-5
Hardcover; 320 Pages

Error Reduction in Health Care explores the complex causes of medical mistakes and offers sound advice for leaders who want to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and mitigate the impact of those errors that do occur. The book is packed pull of examples of thorough incident investigations and process improvement recommendations from leaders in the field of health care quality and risk management. This book has won wide acclaim and was a Doody's 250 Best Books of the Year Selection.

Provider Report Cards: A Guide for Promoting Health Care Quality to the Public
ISBN: 1-55648-250-7
Paperback; 174 Pages

Report card initiatives originated with health plans, but it is fast becoming apparent that consumers believe quality measurement should extend to health providers--hospitals, home care agencies, long term care facilities, and doctors. This book prepares providers to meet the challenges of public-oriented report cards. In Provider Report Cards you’ll learn what the public wants to know about the quality of their providers, how to display performance data in a manner that can be easily understood by the public, techniques for improving dissemination of performance information, strategies for minimizing product liability concerns, and methods for gathering performance data in various provider sites.

 

Listed below is a book that includes a chapter by Patrice Spath. This book is available for purchase through Marcel Dekker, Inc. Phone: 1-800-228-1160   

Point-of-Care Testing: Performance Improvement and Evidence-Based Outcomes
James H. Nichols (editor)
ISBN: 0-8247-0868-7
Hardcover; 520 pages

Point-of-Care Testing discusses techniques to identify potential preanalytical, analytical, and postanalytical errors in point-of-care
testing (POCT). Authors describe how to detect areas of underuse, overuse, or inappropriate provision of care and develop effective
POCT quality assurance programs.