...Maiju Kyytsönen; Marco Tomietto; Moona Huhtakangas; Outi Kanste Purpose The purpose of this study is to review research on hospital-based shared governance (SG), focussing on its core elements. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review was conducted by searching the Medline (Ovid), CINAHL...

... of clinical governance have been taken up by executive boards and medical specialists in the Netherlands. Design/methodology/approach – This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the information-sharing between medical specialists and executive boards in Dutch hospitals as one key aspect of clinical...

... to improve educational governance in hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – Key indicators were identified from the international and national literatures. Later, the indicators were rated and prioritized by a multidisciplinary panel of medical professionals using two rounds of Delphi technique...

...David Birnbaum Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the reporting of quality of care in hospitals. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a narrative review. Findings The American Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently conducted a funding...

...Muslim Amin; Siti Zahora Nasharuddin Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate hospital service quality and its effect on patient satisfaction and behavioural intention. Design/methodology/approach A convenience sampling technique was used in this study. A total of 350 questionnaires...

...Luu Trong Tuan Purpose This research aims to look through the data of Nhan Dan Gia Dinh Hospital, a state‐owned hospital in Vietnam, for evidence on whether a clinical governance initiative cultivates ethical leadership, market‐ or innovation‐oriented culture, knowledge sharing, and knowledge...

...David Birnbaum; William Jarvis; Peter Pronovost; Roxie Zarate Purpose This paper aims to determine whether the rank order of hospitals changes when their central line‐associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rate is computed using a traditional proxy measure for the denominator (number...

.../approach This paper reviews and evaluates an emergency department health care system that adopts a system dynamic model, redesigned the process using value stream mapping to eliminate non‐value‐added activities to achieve just‐in‐time (JIT) services. This study was conducted at SD Mission Hospital, India...

...Emmanuel K. Sakyi; Roger A. Atinga; Francis A. Adzei Purpose Hospital and health system managers are facing several problems following the introduction of Ghana's national health insurance policy. This study aims to investigate the opinions of health managers about the problems emanating from...

...David O'Brien; Steven Pengelly; Anthony Lambert Purpose This study aims to quantify the provision of blood result logons to new Foundation 1 (F1) doctors in a large teaching hospital over the course of two years, with the audit used to bring about improvement over this time. Design/methodology...

...José Ferreira; Carlos Gomes; Mahmoud Yasin Purpose This paper aims to present an applied research effort aimed at re‐engineering the utilization practices of operating rooms for a public Portuguese hospital. This re‐engineering effort is motivated by the desire to enhance the patient‐orientation...

...Yasmeen Alhatmi Purpose Globally, safety in healthcare services has become an important focus. The Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), located in the Sultanate of Oman in the Arabian Gulf, has begun to take active steps in delivering safer healthcare services while moving towards healthcare...

...Tari Turner; Claire Harris; Sally Green Purpose Existing methods of development of evidence‐based guidelines are time‐consuming, resource‐intensive and require extensive skills in systematic reviewing. These factors act as barriers to development of evidence‐based guidelines in hospitals. The aim...

... tertiary university hospital over 12 years. A multidisciplinary TPN committee was created to examine CRBSI episodes and a parallel education programme was set up and maintained. Prospectively collected data were analysed from 1,392 patients in whom 2,565 CVCs were used over 15,397 CVC days. CRBSI incidence...

... web sites are displaying hospital performance data. Washington State's mandatory public reporting of healthcare‐associated infection rates is a recent example of this trend. The Department of Health is required by law to launch a public information web site by December 2009. The research was based...

...Stephen Thomas Ward; Sean Strong; Rachael Louise Goodchild; Ahsan Zafar Zaidi Purpose Patients undergoing emergency appendicectomy incur various delays from the time of symptom onset to the time of discharge from hospital. The centralisation of hospital services over recent years has resulted...

... of an innovative scheme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Auditing Hospitals Regional government United Kingdom Audit, “the systematic, critical analysis of the quality of medical care” (Department of Health, 1989), has become an integral and compulsory component of modern clinical...

... 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...

...Madhav Sinha; Badran Al‐Omar; Saad Al‐Ghanim Purpose This paper seeks to show that there is inappropriate utilization of resources in hospitals in all three health care sectors (whether Ministry of Health, military or private). Such misuses can be tracked down by understanding the factors...

...Jennifer Anderson; Kit Wa Chan; Cathy Walsh; Mervyn London Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the clinical practice for management of opiate dependence in a general hospital in‐patient population based on agreed standards and changes of clinical practice after the introduction...