Accounting for Payroll

When I wrote Essentials of Payroll, I realized that the limitations of Wiley’s shorter “Essentials” softcover series did not provide enough room for the wide range of topics required to present a really thorough treatment of the payroll topic. Even though the Essentials of Payroll manuscript became the longest Es- sentials book ever issued, I still wanted to jam in more information. This …

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions

Millions of Americans today receive health care for mental or substance-use problems and illnesses. These conditions are the leading cause of combined disability and death among women and the second highest among men. Effective treatments exist and continually improve. However, as with general health care, deficiencies in care delivery prevent many from receiving appropriate treatments. That si…

Advanced Accounting

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

13: 978-0-324-37905-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

THE WIRELESS NETWORKING STARTER KIT

Wireless. The word evokes those heady days long ago when radio ruled the entertainment world and families gathered around a console radio the size of a coffee table to marvel at a technology that emitted disembodied voices from far away

Advanced Accounting

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-813662-7

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Hospital-Based Emergency Care

Hospital-based emergency and trauma care is critically important to the health and well-being of Americans. In 2003, nearly 114 million visits were made to hospital emergency departments (EDs)—more than one for every three people in the United States. About one-quarter of those visits were due to unintentional injuries, the leading cause of death for people aged 1 through 44. While most Ameri…

Entering the Child's Mind

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-521-4968-5

Collation

-

Series Title

Entering the Child's Mind

Call Number

-

The Future of Drug Safety

Every day the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works to balance expeditious access to drugs with concerns for safety, consonant with its mission to protect and advance the public health. The task is all the more complex given the vast diversity of patients and how they respond to drugs, the conditions being treated, and the range of pharmaceutical products and supplements patients use. Review…

Financial and Accounting Guide

Not-for-profit organizations are among the most influential and powerful institutions in our society. They range in size from small and local to large and national—or even international. Their scope incorporates a wide range of activity: health and welfare, research, education, religion, social, and professional associations. They include foundations, membership societies, churches, hospitals…

The Learning Healthcare System

Seven years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America released its first report, To Err Is Hu- man, finding that an estimated 44,000 to 98,000 Americans may die an- nually due to medical errors. If mortality tables routinely included medical errors as a formal cause of death, they would rank well within the ten leading killers (IOM 2000). Two years …

ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

This eBook explains all of the basic accounting concepts and terminology you will need to understand the three primary financial statements that appear in every organization’s annual report and most internal monthly reports. You will learn: ● The precise definition of essential accounting terms ● The purpose of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement ●The di…

ESSENTIALS of Credit, Collections, and Accounts Receivable

Credit is part science, part art, and part gut-feel. The trick is to get the right mix.While there is no one absolute right way to handle the credit, collections, and accounts receivable functions, there are a few that are totally and irrefutably wrong. It is the mission of this book to identify both for the reader. For the last eight plus years, I have been lucky enough to spend my days talk…

Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic

During an influenza pandemic, healthcare workers will be on the front lines delivering care to patients and preventing further spread of the disease. Protecting the more than 13 million healthcare workers in the United States from illness or from infecting their families or the patients in their care is critical to limiting morbidity and mortality and preventing progression of a pandemic. The N…

Acting in Practical Applications of Psychodramatic Methods

Many of the most powerful active approaches in contemporary psychotherapy and education are derived from the method of psychodrama, in which a person is helped to imagine and enact a problem instead of just talking about it.

Leadership Commitments to Improve Value in Health Care

This volume reports on discussions among multiple stakeholders about ways they might help transform health care in the United States. The U.S. healthcare system consists of a complex network of decentralized and loosely associated organizations, services, relationships, and participants. Each of the healthcare system’s component sectors—patients, healthcare profes- sionals, healthcare deliv…

Accounting Cycle Exercises IV

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-87-7681-644-5

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Healthcare

The rapid pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation over the last several decades is unprecedented and raises the prospect of achieving dramatic improvements in the nation’s health and well-being. Yet stakeholders from across the healthcare system, from patients to practitioners to payers, are demanding fundamental improvements to a system that is seen as costly, fragmented, a…

Accounting Cycle Exercises III

Edition

1st edition

ISBN/ISSN

978-87-7681-630-8

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm: Innovation and Prac…

Clinical effectiveness research (CER) serves as the bridge between the development of innovative treatments and therapies and their productive application to improve human health. Building on efficacy and safety determinations necessary for regulatory approval, the results of these investigations guide the delivery of appropriate care to individual patients. As the complexity, number, and diver…

Accounting Cycle Exercises II

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-87-7681-628-5

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Accounting

All of the chapter openers have been redesigned and rewritten. The financial chapter openers include a visual of a balance sheet, highlighting the specific section of the balance sheet that will be covered within the chapter. The managerial chapter openers include a visual of a smartphone device, complete with decision-making tools as apps. As students progress through these chapters, the decis…

Accounting Cycle Exercises I

Edition

1st edition

ISBN/ISSN

978-87-7681-554-7

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Clinical Data as the Basic Staple of Health Learning

Because of their potential to enable the development of new knowledge and to guide the development of best practices from the growing sum of individual clinical experiences, clinical data represent the resource most central to healthcare progress (Arrow et al., 2009; Detmer, 2003). Whether captured during product development activities such as clinical research trials and studies, or as a part …

Enhancing Sexuality: Therapist Guide

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

Enhancing Sexuality: Therapist Guide

Call Number

-

Engineering a Learning Healthcare System

The fundamental notion of the learning healthcare system—continuous improvement in effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and quality—is rooted in principles that medicine shares with engineering. In particular, the fields of systems engineering, industrial engineering, and operations research have long experience in the systematic design, analysis, and improvement of complex systems, notably i…

FRAUD ANALYTICS: USING DESCRIPTIVE, PREDICTIVE AND SOCIAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

FRAUD ANALYTICS: USING DESCRIPTIVE, PREDICTIVE AND SOCIAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES

Call Number

-

Lesbian, gay and Bisexual Identities over the Life Span: Psychological Perspe…

Though often hidden in the past,lesbians,gay men,and bisexual women area substantial and increasingly visible minority of the population.With the growing cultural openness about lesbian and gay identities in recent years,issues relating to sexual orientation have become more and more prominent in public discourse.In the 1980s and 1990s,psychological research and theory on gay,lesbian,and bi-s…

Accounting for Managers

Accounting knowledge is a core business skill that both complements and enhances your other talents. Individuals promoted to management or supervisory roles from either line or staff jobs find that many of their new responsibilities involve knowing something about accounting. Congratulations on your promotion! You’ve come to the right place to start developing those accounting skills. If you …

Accounting Reference

The Accounting Reference Manual is designed to give the accountant the answers to all of the most important issues that arise during the typical business day. It provides a compre- hensive overview of all aspects of the accounting function, including accounting rules and regulations, transactions, control points, and internal and external reports. It also itemizes a wide range of accounting man…

Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communication

Many observers believe that the use of emerging interactive health information technologies, often referred to as eHealth,1 can help to improve the quality, capacity, and efficiency of the health care system. eHealth has the potential to improve access to the health care system for traditionally underserved populations and to increase the capacity to pro- vide tailoring and customization for in…