British Journal of Clinical Governance: Volume 5 Issue 1
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Reduction in episodes of self harm/harm to others in severely mentally ill population through assertive outreach
M.S. Turner, A.R. Douglas, J.P. O’Sullivan, M. NicolThis article aims to apply the process of clinical governance to the management of patients with a major mental illness, living in the community, with a history of self harm…
Assessment of health status at two years of very low birthweight infants – clinical governance
P. Stutchfield, S. Nicklin, P. Minchom, T. Powell, A. Kelly, V. Klimach, R. Davies, S. HorrocksAims to establish a mechanism to determine prospectively the health status at two years of babies who weighed less than 1.5kg at birth, born and receiving neonatal intensive care…
Anaesthetists’ records of pre‐operative assessment
Mark Simmonds, Jane PettersonThe pre‐operative anaesthetic records of 195 patients were analysed for the presence of 12 agreed core items of pre‐operative assessment. This study showed that anaesthetists…
A national audit to monitor and promote the uptake of clinical guidelines on the management of diabetes in pregnancy
Gillian C. Penney, Donald PearsonSeeks to assess maternity care for women with Type 1 diabetes in relation to recommendations in a national clinical guideline using a criterion‐based clinical audit. The audit…
Patient education and emergency room visits
Alyson DeSalvo, Sandi Binda Rest, Tammy Knight, Mary Nettleman, Steve FreerPatients visit emergency rooms for urgent and non‐urgent care. Because emergency room visits are more costly than visits to primary care clinics and are less likely to involve…
Information requirements for clinical governance
Hugh SandersonClinical governance requires three main types of information – guidelines, policies and treatment options for clinicians and patients; information about the care given; and…