British Journal of Clinical Governance: Volume 4 Issue 4

Clinical governance development needs in health service staff

Jenny Firth‐Cozens

This paper reports on a study to ascertain the development needs in terms of clinical governance of 220 health service staff across all the key professions from primary and…

Criteria for determining optimal time of discharge after total hip replacement

Julia Wong, Shirley Wong

Total hip replacement is a common and expensive procedure and any attempt to shorten the length of hospital stay safely is desirable. This paper proposes a scoring system…

Outcome‐directed clinical practice in lumbar spine surgery

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…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02689239710195251. When citing the…

Quality of health and medical information on the Internet

Alison Cooke

This article examines some of the problems associated with health and medical information available via the Internet. An overview is provided of gateway services that seek to…