... becomes a necessity in the healthcare sector. Governments have long been recognized as central in safeguarding public health, which has become increasingly relevant in managing epidemics such as HIV (Fidler, 2004). The varying outcomes seen in different countries' abilities to contain global pandemics...

... is influenced by healthcare workload, power differences between healthcare providers, managers and policymakers, healthcare providers' beliefs about healthcare outcomes and the availability of evidence that links PE elements to these outcomes (Coulter, 2013 ; Kleinman, 1988 ; Zakkar et al., 2021...

... should be guided by evidence-based CPG. On the other hand, critical authors of EBM methodology argue that various interests undermine the quality of evidence and reliability of CPG recommendations. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate patient related outcomes of CPG implementation, in light of EBM...

... dimensions. Moutasem Zakkar can be contacted at: mzakkar@uwaterloo.ca 05 09 2018 04 01 2019 15 01 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Culture Outcomes Healthcare quality Patient perspectives Management...

... the best possible patient outcome. Some surgeons will have higher numbers of IRT30 than others, although the numbers vary from year to year. Surgeons with higher numbers will inevitably reflect on their figures, which in itself may be helpful. We also encourage every surgeon to consider their own IRT30...

... with the increasing costs and risk associated with ageing populations and a more complex healthcare delivery model, effective clinical governance policies focussed on quality outcomes are essential. Originality/value – This paper highlights the responsibility of healthcare boards to learn lessons from other...

...Miriam Marcus‐Smith Purpose Four Washington State associations came together to form a novel organization in response to rising healthcare sector costs, coupled with the need to ensure efficient provision of high quality care that improves health outcomes. This article seeks to explain the work...

...Lorraine M. Clapham; Julie Buckley Outcome audits describe the current level of clinical performance and direct change in clinical practice. The outcome measures used should be not only relevant and easily understood but also available to all interested parties, e.g. patients, clinicians...

... Auditing guidelines Health care Outcomes Guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) are the focus of the Scottish approach to ensure that knowledge from research and review is quickly adopted. SIGN guideline topics are selected from guideline proposals submitted...