Journal of Clinical Effectiveness: Volume 2 Issue 4
Table of contents
Impact of accreditation systems upon patient care
Ellie ScrivensAccreditation in health care is a method of reviewing the quality of the organization of health care, using external surveyors and published standards. It is frequently contrasted…
Clinical Pathology Accreditation: a quality system for diagnostic pathology services
J.S. Lilleyman, C. BlairClinical Pathology Accreditation is a UK‐based scheme for the accreditation of pathology services. It was established 5 years ago and has now been adopted by over two thirds of UK…
Fellowship by assessment of the Royal College of General Practitioners: improving patient care
Mike PringleFellowship by Assessment of the Royal College of General Practitioners was first introduced in 1989. This followed the ‘What Sort of Doctor?’ initiative, which explored the…
Finding and evaluating sources of evidence: nicotine replacement therapy as a case study
Andrew BoothAlthough in many decision‐making contexts it may be a problem actually to find any evidence there are already a number of topics where the challenge is presented by the…
Taking on the Welsh initiative: an innovative collaborative venture
Susan Cervetto, Jeremy SavageIn response to the Welsh Clinical Effectiveness Initiative, Carmarthen and District NHS Trust, UK, has established a series of innovative partnership agreements with six…
National survey of UK clinical guidelines for the management of coronary heart disease, lung and breast cancer, asthma and depression
Françoise Cluzeau, Peter Littlejohns, Jeremy Grimshaw, Gene FederThere is anecdotal evidence of a plethora of guidelines developed throughout the NHS. A national survey was carried out between March and June 1995 to identify the number of…