Maintaining excellence.

Ensuring excellence in centers of excellence programs.

Studies have found associations between better outcomes and a variety of structural and process criteria that help explain the wide outcome variations that occur across hospitals. In response, Centers of Excellence programs have been developed by multiple third parties. Despite this, programs have yielded disappointing results and can have unintended consequences. To outweigh potential harms, o...

Celebrating excellence

Excellence is a talent or quality, which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. Ophthalmology in India today has reached a level that is considered to be on par with the best in the world. Moreover, a lot of the credit for this goes to the founding ophthalmology institutes in India that have been imparting quality training and education to ophthalmology trainees over the years. ...

A new RVH for a new century: maintaining clinical excellence. Annual oration: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, October 2003.

This oration, and the record of it for publication, mainly focuses on the new Royal Victoria Hospital building opened officially on 2 September 2003, but it is interesting to compare and contrast the needs of the Royal Victoria Hospital at the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries. At both times there was increasing dissatisfaction with the hospital's accommodation while the demands on the hospit...

Public health disciplinary excellence.

As a mature and productive discipline, public health needs three things. The first two requirements of public health excellence are familiar to us. First, we need access to the public health field so that we can, from experience, identify the problems that need to be resolved, and we need to maintain our access to the field so that we can gather our data. Second, we need skills in appropriate r...

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