Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

Research and Development in Clinical Nursing Practice
Research and Development in Clinical Nursing Practice

Author: Brenda Roe

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0470698683

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Though slogans such as 'nursing must be a research-based profession' have been around for a long time, recent initiatives such as Nursing Development Units (NDUs), quality assurance and evidence-based practice have moved nursing to the forefront amongst health professions in taking seriously the promotion of rational care based on a critical appraisal of past practices and the evaluation of new ideas and techniques. This is the first book to examine research and development in clinical nursing practice. It explains how to do it and how to apply it.

Advancing Clinical Governance
Advancing Clinical Governance

Author: Jonathon Secker-Walker

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-04-21

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1000948609

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The follow-up to Clinical Governance - Making it Happen considers the implications of clinical governance for a wide range of health care professionals including nurses, medical directors and chief executives. The contributors examine the role of the new government organisation NICE, the responsibilities of those working for NHS organisations and the benefits of patient involvement. Advancing Clinical Governance will enable health professionals to implement clinical governance effectively and with confidence.

The Practice of Quality
The Practice of Quality

Author: Donald Irvine

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1315345897

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This work adopts a modern approach to quality assurance and quality improvement in general practice. It provides an introduction to the subject, enabling readers to see how best to proceed in their own practices. It revises and updates previous books by Donald and Sally Irvine on clinical audit by placing audit within the wider quality context. It is designed to provide an easily accessible approach to the basic tenets as well as speculating on the future developments in this area, and should be of interest to all members of the practice team. The themes of the book are illustrated by reference to the five major case studies provided, which describe in some detail the various ways of starting, implementing and maintaining quality assurance in general practice today. Practical examples of Total Quality Management, the use of British Standard 5750, Kings Fund organizational audit, Investors in People, and Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners by assessment, are also provided. These studies are written by the practitioners, medical and non-medical, who have themselves been through the experience of turning theory into practice.

Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit
Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

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Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781857759761

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Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance. Provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients with common conditions like asthma or diabetes. Builds on a long history of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals reviewing case notes and seeking ways to serve their patients better. Addresses the quality issues systematically and explicitly, providing reliable information. Can confirm the quality of clinical services and highlight the need for improvement. Provides clear statements of principle about clinical audit in the NHS.

Clinical Governance in Primary Care
Clinical Governance in Primary Care

Author: Jamie Harrison

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781857758610

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Extending and amplifying the principles outlined in the first edition, this book provides a description of clinical governance in primary care by a panel of renowned leading contributors - based on practical examples on how clinical governance functions in Primary Care Trusts and teams.

Research Methods for Health and Social Care
Research Methods for Health and Social Care

Author: Joanne Neale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1137054697

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This accessible and clearly structured book, written by experienced researchers and practitioners, provides a one-stop introduction to the most common qualitative, quantitative and desk-based research designs and methods in health and social care.