Practice Management Books

I am not a marketing professional, so I bought this book hoping to learn something useful. I am glad I bought it. It's packed with high-quality essays that cover the topics I always wanted to read about.

I work as a software developer in a company that doesn't really know what market it is in. I felt that way for a while, but the essays in this book really drove it home for me. The book contains 40 essays, of which I read about 10 so far. My two favorite essays are "Marketing Myopia" (#2) and "The New Product Development Map" (#17). The first one hits the issue of a "customer-oriented" company head-on. It's the most honest and brutal examination of what it means to be such a company. Just what I needed! The second one is a perfectly balanced case study of a particular company and its products over 30 years. It shows how market segmentation and targeting should influence new product generations. I have a new long-term outlook on the products I'm developing after reading this chapter.

This book does not go into esoteric sales or financial topics. Instead it sticks to the ubiquitous 4 P's of marketing and product development. I'm glad it does, since, as a non-marketing professional, these are the topics I need to understand.

I learned so much from this book I can go on and on and on. I heartily recomment it.

Strategic Marketing Management is an essential guide to gaining fast insight into the critical factors of successful marketing. Each chapter deals with a seperate isolated issue which faces all marketers regardless of industry. Most of the chapter authors have abstracted key business elements and also provided real world examples to back their points. This book has wide breadth, but obviously trades off depth. It is excellent for non-business school majors who need to learn the critical marketing issues in a hurry. Main topics organized around the four P's of marketing: Product, Price, Place (Distribution) and Promotion. I recomend it to all our our new hires.

This text book is easy to use and is extremely useful. It outlines practice parameters which are evidence-based. It is a must have for any family physician or internist who practices using the latest clinical practice guidelines and recommendations.

Excellent resource that I use daily in the wards. Everything I need in a handy format. Anybody whose starting out as a first year resident in primary care, this book is invaluable.

This book covers all aspects of chronic pain management. So far I managed to solve all my clinical problems related to pain using this text. Each chapter is a comprehensive review of a pain topic. Very practical, it also discusses everyday problems, such as setting up a chronic pain practice and legal issues.

This is and excellent all around book on pain management
Has a good chapter on the legal aspects of prescribing
narcotics

This is an excellent book about stress managment. The autors give a cler idea about the use of many stress managment techniques, including progressive muscular relaxation, autogenic training, meditation, yoga based therapy, cognitive approaches to stress, exercise and others. All the articles have a lot of referencces to reserach results with the techniques, wich show us the scientificity of the methods. It also includes some chapters with the comparation of the research results with many techniques and their applicability to clinical problems. I would recomend this book to all psychologist interested in the field.

Having been a practitioner and trainer in the field of Stress management (even helped develop questions for the Stress Management Certification Exam) it has been my responsibility to learn lots of different models and techniques for helping people understand and manage stress.

This book presents the most important, most effective and powerful models and techniques, many written by their original developers. It is a valuable, unique resource, primarily for professionals and practitioners. It provides both theoretical and practical technique information. But it is probably not the best book for the average layman wanting to deal with stress more effectively. Laymen (and professionals) should consider the Relaxation and Stress Workbook, in that case. But professionals will want the Lehrer Woolfolk, compilation because of the detailed theoretical grounding provided for the techniques, which include Autogenic training, Clinically Standardized meditation, Progressive muscle relaxation, biofeedback. And many more.

I can't emphasize enough that these are not just chapters written by anyone. This is the "Woodstock" of stress theory and practice books, with chapters by the "stars" of the field.

It is nice to recieve a new item, in a speedy delivery and still save $!

As a student in a diagnostic coding course, I find this text much easier to understand than the one we were required to purchase. It explains the basics, provides examples, and offers several exercises. Although some of the answers in the back for the exercises aren't current because of this text's publication date, I still find this book's straightforward style and user-friendly format quite effective in teaching the principles of ICD-9-CM coding.

This is a very extensive set of instructions for the new medical practice. Includes chapters on recruiting personnel, office management, specialized computer operations, and much more.

Carey's PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTICE: GETTING IT STARTED & MAKING IT WORK should be on the "required reading" list of any health care practitioner nearing the end of their training, and for those contemplating a new job offer. Aimed primarily at physicians, all health care providers will find useful information on topics such as writing a CV, evaluating practice opportunities, personnel management and administration, financial and risk management and managed care. She includes a "Twelve-month" plan on starting a new practice that takes in to account every little detail that may crop up. Carey is well-qualified as an author having over 15 years experience as a practice management consultant for physicians. As a military physician preparing to enter civilian life, this book was a lifesaver.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.
However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.

However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

If I hadn't been made aware of this guide, the exam would have been a complete disaster. Not only does it offer a wide choice in the type of questions encountered in the exam, but explanations of some of the more obscure concepts are simple and concise. I can't recommend the guide enough to anyone sitting the CCA exam. I also bought the 2008 edition thinking that the questions would be completely different when in reality about 95% are the same.

In a few weeks I am going for the third time to take my certification exam for CCA. I missed passing it twice due to the fact that Hurricane Katrina hit just a month after finishing the entire AHIMA CCA courses. Being away from the material for over 2 years and not being able to find a job because so many were lost in Biloxi and never recovered, I have no practical experience. I had no idea where to even begin to study using all of my books. Thanks to the excellent writing of this book, I have hope that this time I can pass as the book helps you to relearn.

I took my test for the third time and passed!! I truly believe that it is due to this book. The book helped me to relearn what I had forgotten and did it in such a helpful and thoughtful manner. It helped me to finally focus on what I needed to study and I am so grateful to the author for putting in the "I think I can" attitude. I did pass by doing it one question at a time.

The book arrived on time and in better condition than I expected.
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All of the questions were straightforward. If you didn't understand any of the questions, the references were either right after the question or at the end of each chapter for review. There were a couple of times that I did not comprehend some of the questions and, luckily, was able to refer back to my books for help. Anyone considering sitting for their CCS or anyone just looking for a good Coding review, I would highly recommend purchasing this book.

The editors, Julie Ann Gustanski and Roderick Squires have brought together a dynamic team of experts from across the country. The legal analysis chapters help all those who are interested, not only in knowing their own state's conservation easement laws, but those who are looking to help forge new or improved legislation in their state.

The case studies exemplify the diversity and range of land conservation options that are possible using conservation easements and add to the richness of the book.

While the reading may be legalistic to academic at times, the diversity of presentations serve to enhance this very rich volume of information. "Protecting the Land" serves as the first in-depth insight to the legal workings of conservation easement legislation across the country. This book is an ABSOLUTE MUST for all those "out in the field" as well as those who may be interested in learning more about the legal dimensions of easement enabling legislation, its history, how easements have been used, as well as a look to the future of land conservation in the US.

From the point of view as an academic, I also believe that this book will be extremely useful to those teaching in the legal arena that deals with conservation easements, as well as to those who are teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in resource conservation and environmental policy.

The caliber of contributors to the volume speaks for itself, from Steve Small to Todd Mayo and Bill Hutton, among others writing on the legal aspects of conservation enabling laws. And on the ground there are numerous contributing authors who have decades of knowledge and experience behind them, including Tom Daniels, Dennis Collins, Chuck Roe, and Julie Ann Gustanski. Those from academe tease out strands that have for too long gone unteased. Jack Wright for example brings both experience from the academic and practitioners perspectives, as do Daniels and Gustanski.

While the volume is not for the lighthearted reader, it addresses the subject matter extensively, and succinctly.

Overall I give this book 5 stars, it is well written, well documented, and provides the best single volume I have seen in more than two decades of experience with land trusts and the phenomenal tool we call conservation easements.

I'm a public official with the planning function, looking for a better way to preserve farm land, open space and rural character. This book offers a lot of insight into the history and uses of conservation easements. The book is divided into sections that describe in detail how laws and courts in each section of the country administer conservation easements. I recommend this book - it is an excellent planning resource!