Background: The quality of clinical services is one of the main concerns around the world. Clinical governance as a new approach to improving the quality of care provided by the health care system plays a major role in the provision of higher quality health care services. The success of this approach depends on the existence of a strong and suitable organizational culture. The aim of this study...

Dear Editor, Ravaghi et al. should be congratulated for offering a fascinating insight into the views of senior managers on the implementation of clinical governance (1). Clearly many had experience of challenges in implementation and there were different types of challenges. However, a common theme ran through many of the challenges, and that theme is one of cost. The managers did not mention ...

The accentuated interest in the quality of governance along with the idea that ‘what is measured is what matters’ has been endorsing the deployment and use of quantitative governance indicators. Moreover, decentralization and public policies emphasising localism are putting the focus on local governments. This article addresses the challenges of developing indicators and using the information f...

Human health is greatly affected by inadequate access to sufficient and safe drinking water, especially in low and middle-income countries. Drinking water governance improvements may be one way to better drinking water quality. Over the past decade, many projects and international organizations have been dedicated to water governance; however, water governance in the drinking water sector is un...

Highly regulated sectors face challenges on data and information quality management (DIQM) to conform to increasing regulations. With the financial service sector, as the most highly regulated industry, we are interested in current and future DIQM challenges. For a sustaining improvement, data quality should be managed process-driven. Process-driven data quality management (PDDQM) provides cont...

OBJECTIVES To review the literature on different models of clinical governance and to explore their relevance to Australian primary health care, and their potential contributions on quality and safety. DATA SOURCES 25 electronic databases, scanning reference lists of articles and consultation with experts in the field. We searched publications in English after 1999, but a search of the German...

This paper examines how democracy affects long-run growth by influencing the quality of governance. Empirical evidence is presented showing that the quality of governance is substantially higher in democratic countries. A general-equilibrium, endogenous growth model is then built to show how a governance-improving democracy raises growth. In this model, stronger democratic institutions influenc...

BACKGROUND Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care. This study aimed to assess some Iranian educational hospitals' readiness for clinical governance implementation through the organizational climate. METHODS It was a cross-sectional study that used the Clinical Governance Climate Questionnaire (CGCQ) in three educational hospitals ...

Corporate governance is a complex issue, the focal point of which is the exercise of power. The power has limits, however, imposed by both legislation and contracts. Also, even if the overarching power belongs to the shareholders, residual power cannot be exercised to the detriment of the rights of the other stakeholders. Because the governance system and resulting structures have a major influ...

Technological advances in the quality, availability and linkage potential of health data for research make the need to develop robust and effective information governance mechanisms more pressing than ever before; they also lead us to question the utility of governance devices used hitherto such as consent and anonymisation. This article assesses and advocates a principles-based approach, contr...