... rights only Clinical Governance Health Services Research methods Surveys and questionnaires Funding: This study did not receive any funding from funding agencies. A health system comprises a network of organizations, individuals, and actions whose primary goal...

...Jigi Lucas; Sandra G. Leggat; Nicholas F. Taylor Purpose To investigate the association between implementation of clinical governance and patient safety. Design/methodology/approach A pre-post study was conducted in an Australian health service following the implementation of clinical...

... workers Health services We represented continuous variables as mean (standard deviation [SD]) for normally distributed data or median (interquartile range [IQR]) for skewed data. The categorical variables were presented as frequency (percentages). Furthermore, we developed a scale from selected 13...

... their own contribution to global ecological changes and an advocacy role for social and economic changes for a healthier and more sustainable future. Practical implications To live up to this challenge, health services will need to expand from a focus on health governance to one on governance for health...

...Ita M. Fung; Wai Yee Chan; Eric Chan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to bring consideration to the care receivers’ point of view when setting policies for the delivery of health services. Design/methodology/approach – This paper briefly reviews the delivery of health services...

... 2013 Clinical governance Patient safety Risk management Health services Commitment to patient safety begins with awareness of the problem and understanding of the mechanisms underlying patient safety incidents. Awareness of the scale of patient safety has grown in the last decade...

... and the Cochrane Database. Search terms and combinations used included: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Clinical supervision Clinical governance Nurses Allied health Health services Clinical supervision is becoming standard practice for health professionals and has been considered...

... 2012 Training Nursing Organization Health services United Kingdom As the affordability of health care decreases, because of the twin pressures of increasing cost and static or reducing national incomes to pay for it, there is increasing pressure to innovate with services offering...

...Judith Strobl; Rajan Madhok Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of Manchester Primary Care Trust (PCT) of driving improvement in quality and patient safety as commissioners in the English National Health Service (NHS). After the PCT's establishment in late 2006...

...Paul Hansen; Alison Hendry; Ray Naden; Franz Ombler; Ralph Stewart Purpose This paper aims to describe a new process for creating points systems – i.e. decision criteria and their point values – for prioritising patients for access to elective health services. Design/methodology/approach...

.... On this view, the information system cannot be separated conceptually from the system of governance it supports or the people whose work it facilitates or hinders. Design/methodology/approach The study, located within the English National Health Service (NHS) between 1999 and 2005, is case study based...

... Health services Best practice Children (age groups) The purpose of this study is to increase the influenza immunization rate in a clinic population of clinically ill and immunocompromised children. Influenza has significant mortality and morbidity as well as a major cost to society each year...

... of technology Health services Records management Internationally, there are increasing investments in electronic health record (EHR) systems. Among the envisaged benefits are cost savings, greater patient involvement in care, secondary uses of data, improved data exchange between care settings...

... on all wards for fire, infection control, CPR, patient fall and risk management. Yasmeen Alhatmi can be contacted at: yaz4me2@yahoo.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Safety Quality improvement Organizational culture Health services Hospitals Oman Globally, safety...

... Suicide Violence Health services United Kingdom Clinical audit involves measuring current practice against an agreed “gold‐standard”. The standards were a combination of Department of Health recommendations as well as the current HPFT policy on clinical risk assessment (Department of Health, 2007...

... disorders. Children (age groups) Health services Metabolic diseases Computer software Prolonged neonatal jaundice (NNJ) is defined as jaundice persisting beyond two weeks of age in term babies and three weeks in pre‐term babies. Prolonged jaundice can be a sign of serious underlying...

... of translative healthcare research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Patients Innovation Public policy Research Health services Patient and public involvement (PPI) is not yet a precisely defined concept but it is becoming an important pillar of healthcare policy where it has two...

... in decisions about their diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competences Systems theory Learning organizations Health services “Community” is rapidly becoming a new metaphor for the word “organization”. For hundreds of thousands of years, people...

... on a similar study in the NHS UK, was utilised to answer the research questions of this study. Data were collected in eight acute hospitals in the Health Services Executive (HSE) regions in Ireland. Two hospitals were selected from each of the four regions and nursing staff on three wards within each hospital...

... appropriate chaperones, and believe chaperones add to patient comfort and protect both doctor and patient. Health services Consultants Medical practice Surveillance United Kingdom In 2004 a Public Inquiry into the unprofessional behaviour of Dr Clifford Ayling, a General Practitioner from Kent...