... significance. Taylor et al. (2006) underlined clinical pathway importance as a crucial clinical governance tool to improve patient care ensuring, consequently, an appropriate resource use. Stroke Clinical governance Clinical pathway Appropriateness Cerebrovascular diseases...

... bone correlated with better surgical outcomes, as did absent retrognathia or a long airway. Evidence-based practice Continuous quality improvement Clinical governance Care pathways Clinical guidelines Trans-oral robotic surgery (TORS) Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) Magnetic resonance...

...Declan Dunne; Nikhil Lal; Nagarajan Pranesh; Michael Spry; Christopher Mcfaul; Paul Rooney Purpose A clinical audit is a key component of the clinical governance framework. The rate of audit completion in general surgery has not been investigated. The purpose of this paper is to assess the rates...

... Change management Continuous quality improvement Continuing professional development Clinical governance The program targeted researcher leadership, knowledge and skill development to better manage healthcare complexity and the dynamic nature of service delivery. The program provided...

... standards may be easily adopted in other countries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Benchmarking Clinical governance Patient safety Risk management Self-assessment Clinical risk management Clinical risk management (CRM) is a key clinical governance component, defined...

... the same day. Service quality Clinical governance Clinical audit Post-mortems provide an important tool for mortality audits and accurate death certification, which in turn has implications for epidemiological studies (Roulson et al., 2005 ; Shojania et al., 2003...

... setting and therefore influence patient safety everywhere. United Kingdom Hospitals Patients Safety measures Patient safety Clinical governance Root cause analysis Quality assurance Checklist It has been more than ten years since the Institute of Medicine's report To Err...

... 2013 Temporal arteritis Temporal artery biopsy Giant cell arteritis Blood vessels Medical diagnosis Clinical governance United Kingdom Figure 2 Steroid treatment duration, post‐negative TAB result Figure 3 Referral protocol based on the ACR scoring...

... guidelines Clinical indicators Quality measures Quality programmes Clinical governance Quality indicators are increasingly used in many health care settings to measure, compare, and increase quality of care (Donabedian, 1966 ; Brook et al., 1996 ; Baker and Fraser, 1995 ; Mainz, 2004...

... on the implementation of clinical governance, suggesting that few lessons have been learnt from previous policy initiatives and raising important questions for the future of health care standards. Practical implications The findings could be used to support future national health care initiatives by giving...

... ongoing and/or serious problems that diminish the quality of service provided by the health care organisation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Clinical governance Quality improvement Complaints Patients Australia Accurate information about the actual...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Customer orientation Clinical governance Mass screening Health services Scotland Ireland This paper demonstrates how an emphasis on customer focus, as used in other service industries, can help to provide a better health service. It uses the Scottish and Irish...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Clinical effectiveness Clinical governance Evidence-based practice Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 21, Issue 4 Donna Brayford, Ruth Chambers...

... effectiveness, Clinical governance,Evidence-based practice This highly practical book is written specifically for midwives, having been developed from the best-selling Clinical Effectiveness and Clinical Governance Made Easy, 4th edition. Requiring no prior knowledge, it provides a straightforward...

... Clinical governance Patient experience Continuous improvement Keywords: Clinical governance, Patient experience, Continuous improvement © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Under the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales, all contractors...

... is lacking. Clinical governance France Venous thromboembolism is a common clinical problem among hospitalised patients (Heit et al., 2000). The clinical silence of deep vein thrombosis and the high risk of mortality of pulmonary embolism make prevention the most suitable response...

... of a well‐planned health care system. When asked if there were cases of wrong diagnoses, she responded: Financial benefits Sweden Social welfare Health services sector Medical treatment Clinical governance In the previous two decades a number of forces have changed the thinking...

..., developing, ratifying and disseminating clinical guidelines with the intention of improving clinical outcomes. Working for Patients (DoH, 1989); The NHS Plan (DoH, 2000); and Clinical Governance: Quality in the New NHS (NHS Executive, 1999). The strategy describes...

... The Audit Commission has published its report to the Department of Health on the proposed Payment by Results (PbR) data assurance framework for the National Health Service (NHS) Keywords: Healthcare information, Quality assurance, Clinical governance The Payment by Results Assurance...

..., how and why they occurred. SEA is already used in primary care organisations, especially in general practice, and is an important part of clinical governance. The NPSA provides specialist RCA training for selected NHS staff in each organisation involved in reporting nationally, and is running...