Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long-Term Care: Challenges and Solutions
Author: Dennis A Robbins
Ethical and Legal Issues in Home Health and Long—Term Care gives home health care providers practical approaches to the ethical and legal issues unique to home health care. The authors provide a sophisticated yet practical framework for developing and applying an ethics action plan. From establishing an ethics committee to integrating legal, clinical, and organizational concerns, to providing key medical—ethical decision making criteria for end—of—life decisions, the book offers home health and other community—based providers a comprehensive resource to guide staff and to avoid liability.
William K. Cody
This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes. The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice. The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority. The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource. This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issueshe describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.
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Reviewer: William K. Cody, RN, PhD (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Description: This book provides information on legal and ethical issues in home health and long-term care, describes ethical analysis and decision-making in these settings, and provides models to guide caregivers in these processes.
Purpose: The book fulfills a need in the related literature by providing a resource to guide the reader through ethical questions in a way that is sufficiently comprehensive to deal with their complexity, along with tools and techniques to address ethical questions in practice.
Audience: The book, targeting caregivers and administrators in home health care, long-term care, hospice, and community health care, may be used as a textbook for healthcare professionals. Robbins, with a PhD in philosophy, a Harvard MPH, and 10 years' experience in the ethics of postacute care, is a credible authority.
Features: The book is organized into 12 chapters that provide an overview of the issues, explore the forces influencing ethical problems, present some key ethical concepts and principles, offer a model for decision making, and describe how to implement policies and procedures based on ethical reasoning. Chapters conclude with open-ended case studies and questions for discussion. The book ends with a bibliography on healthcare ethics, fulfilling the claim that the book is a comprehensive resource.
Assessment: This book features a well-balanced array of facts, theory, analysis, illustration, and guidance, and it will be a useful addition to any healthcare library. Robbins writes with a minimum of jargon and differentiates well between legal and ethical problems. A possible weakness of the text is the sparseness of the explanations of ethical principles. Robbins captures the profundity and urgency of the ethical issues he describes and frankly delineates which side of an issue he is on. The book leaves the reader better prepared to grapple with the inevitable ethical dilemmas of home health and long-term care.
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3 Stars from Doody
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Information and Management Systems for Product Customization
Author: Thorsten Blecker
In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both customization and cost factors to gain a competitive advantage. While product customization is the manufacturing of products according to individual customer needs, it does not involve any focus on the cost perspective. INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION will concentrate on both product customization and costs' efficiency, which is termed as mass customization. Moreover, mass customization with its multi-dimensions is the new business paradigm challenging today's manufacturing companies.
Understanding the needs and desires of the customer are central to the strategy of mass customization. However, introducing customer needs into the realm of product development dramatically increases the level of complexity of creating and delivering the product both internally and externally. This book introduces an innovative model that assesses and distinguishes subjective and objective customer needs. This model along with other software tools and AI agents address the complexity issues that are both external and internal in a mass customization strategy. Fundamentally, the book— with its technical analysis, models, conceptual frameworks, and managerial tools—closes the gap between the complexity and the difficulty of mass customization with its potential payoffs and implementation.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Product customization : theoretical basics | 9 |
| Ch. 3 | Mass customization and complexity | 45 |
| Ch. 4 | A customers' needs model for mass customization | 63 |
| Ch. 5 | Customer oriented interaction systems | 79 |
| Ch. 6 | A multi-agent system for coping with variety induced complexity | 115 |
| Ch. 7 | Implementation scenarios of the information systems | 149 |
| Ch. 8 | Product modularity in mass customization | 163 |
| Ch. 9 | Key metrics system based management tool for variety steering and complexity evaluation | 181 |
| Ch. 10 | Conclusions | 243 |
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