Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce publication of Volume 17 of Advances in Health Care Management, with an unusual and important international focus on best practices in health care.
Significant variations in the quality of health care management practices are present both within and across local, regional, and international health systems (Clancy & Cronin, 2005). With increasing globalization of health services, both quality and efficiency of care can benefit from shared learning on a regional or global basis. Although systems and quality of health care delivery differ across the world, empirical research has found that human beings involved in health care, whether in the role of patients or health care providers, have similar wants and needs. Identifying and documenting best practices within and across countries is more important than ever. Best practices in health care management organize clinical and administrative processes in ways that achieve leapfrog results as compared to normal standards in industry, potentially earning brand status.
Details on the chapters in this volume, including a table of contents and downloadable chapters, are available on the Emerald Publishing website at http://emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S1474-8231201517.
Many thanks to our guest editorial team (Sandra C. Buttigieg, PhD, University of Malta, Cheryl Rathert, PhD, VCU, and Wilfried von Eiff, PhD, University of Münster), and all of the contributors to this volume.
Jim Goes
Grant Savage
Leonard Friedman
Series Editors, Advances in Health Care Management