HCA 4113 - Quality Health Care Programs

3 Hours. Introduces students to effective health care management and program planning, development and evaluation of health care programs. Included are techniques of program evaluation and an overview of the wide variety of methodological approaches currently being taken within the field of health services to study and understand fundamental health care issues. Special attention is given to identifying program objectives, measuring performance for quality assurance, patient advocacy and designing evaluation studies. The course concludes with discussion of issues in utilization and ethics. Prerequisite: HCA 2113, MGMT 3183