Hospital Operations: Principles of High Efficiency Health Care

Acknowledgments

We are forever grateful to our incredible co-authors, Dr. Jeffrey Desmond, MD; Christopher Friese, BSN, PhD; Dr. Stephen Kronick, MD, MS; Dr. Michael Mulholland, MD, PhD; and Dr. Jeffrey Myers, MD whose ability to turn around manuscripts in the midst of saving lives and running a major hospital left us in constant awe. We are also indebted to many other colleagues at the University of Michigan whose wide-ranging expertise in health care and generosity in sharing it has shaped our thinking in more ways than we can describe. In particular, we thank Dr. Carolyn Blane, MD; Mark Daskin, PhD; Deborah Harkins RN, MBA; Dr. Jack Iwashyna, MD, PhD; Dr. Christopher Kim, MD, MBA; Dr. Timothy Rutter, MD; Soroush Saghafian, PhD; Joan Scheske, ...