Clinical Governance: An International Journal: Volume 19 Issue 2

Perceptions of nurses on the impact of accreditation on quality of care: A survey in a hospital in Turkey

– This article aims to investigate perceptions of Turkish nurses on the impact of accreditation on quality of care and the effect of accreditation on quality results.

Improving trainee psychiatrist's handover: standard setting and audit

The 2006 Post Graduate Medical Education Trust Board (PMETB) trainees' survey indicated inadequacies in handover procedures amongst medical and psychiatry trainees nationwide; and…

Clinical and information governance proposes; human fallibility disposes

There is a strong drive within the UK's National Health Service (NHS) towards ensuring quality and reducing adverse events. This incorporates clinical governance, which applies to…

Nurse led discharge: improving efficiency, safely

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that nurse led discharge (NLD) could improve the efficiency of simple discharges from a short stay surgical ward without compromising…

Developing indicators to improve educational governance in hospitals

Clinical governance should be based on cultural elements that value lifelong learning, skill development and research. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a set of…

Orthopaedic triage: cost effectiveness, diagnostic/surgical and management rates

The purpose of this paper is to investigate cost effectiveness, diagnostic rates, surgical percentage and appropriateness for orthopaedic referrals and number of patients able to…

Factors influencing national rollout of quality improvement approaches to public hospitals in Tanzania

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that influence the implementation of the rollout of the 5S approach in public hospitals in Tanzania, and share the way to scale…

Promises in psychological contract drive commitment for clinicians

Job satisfaction, mental health and organisational commitment are important for clinician retention. Psychological contracts, organisational justice and negative affectivity (NA…

CGIJ review

– Provides an overview of the content of the current issue of CGIJ.

Law as a tool to promote healthcare safety

The purpose of this paper is to inform healthcare providers and healthcare facility leadership about the statutory, administrative, criminal, and tort law implications related to…

Summaries from the DARE Database

Effective behaviour change techniques in smoking cessation interventions for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Internet-based worksite wellness approaches for cardiovascular disease risk management

Strategies for reducing regional variation in the use of surgery

Classification systems for lower extremity amputation prediction in subjects with active diabetic foot ulcer

Whole of community interventions to prevent excessive population weight gain

Workplace health promotion interventions for increasing physical activity

Off-hour presentation and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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