Clinical Governance: An International Journal: Volume 16 Issue 1

Applying and developing health service theory: an empirical study into clinical governance

This paper aims to examine an organisation's enactment of clinical governance through applying and advancing a theoretical model.

Physical healthcare for people with serious mental illness

This paper aims to design and implement an audit of physical health monitoring for patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in primary care.

Section 136 assessments in Trafford Borough of Manchester

The aim of this study is to ascertain a trend of the section 136 assessments over a period of time and compare it with the standards laid down by the code of practice.

Determining quality of public health care services in rural India

This paper aims to measure the perception of patients towards quality of services in public health care centres in rural India.

Community of CompetenceTM: Part II – application of a new organizational concept to health care

The paper aims to propose that Community of Competence^TM (C of C), as a catalyst for change, can foster and accelerate a paradigm shift in how longstanding, complex problems in…

Clinical governance: a review of key concepts in the literature

This paper aims to explore the development of the concept of clinical governance as an international approach to addressing quality and safety issues in healthcare.

Health technology assessment

A pragmatic randomised controlled trial to compare antidepressants with a community-based psychosocial intervention for the treatment of women with postnatal depression: the RESPOND trial

Reviews of effectiveness

Inhaled corticosteroids versus placebo for preventing COPD exacerbations

Diagnostic accuracy of rectal bleeding in combination with other symptoms for colorectal cancer

Smoking cessation therapies in people with heart disease

Glucosamine, chondroitin, or placebo for osteoarthritis of hip or knee

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

A multicentred randomised controlled trial of a primary care-based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain: the Back Skills Training (BeST) trial

Group cognitive behavioural therapy for postnatal depression: a systematic review of clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and value of information analyses

Calcium supplements and risk of cardiovascular events

Testing for cytochrome P450 polymorphisms in patients with schizophrenia

Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography to assess steno-occlusions in peripheral arterial disease

Screening for prostate cancer

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