clinical governance: costs and benefits

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Clinical governance: costs and benefits.

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 ...

Exploring the costs and benefits drivers of clinical education.

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to identify monetary and nonmonetary costs and benefits, as well as their drivers, to assist persons in clinical sites who are implementing clinical education to minimize costs and maximize benefits. METHOD Qualitative research methodology involved students, student supervisors, administrators, and patients in a hermeneutic dialectic process of identifying co...

Voluntary voting: Costs and benefits

We compare voluntary and compulsory voting in a Condorcet-type model in which voters have identical preferences but differential information. With voluntary voting, all equilibria involve sincere voting and positive participation. Thus, in contrast to situations with compulsory voting, there is no conflict between strategic and sincere behavior. When voting is costless, voluntary voting is welf...

Abstraction: Nature, Costs, and Benefits

ion: Nature, Costs, and Benefits Graeme S. Halford University of Queensland, 4072, Australia William H. Wilson University of New South Wales Steven Phillips Electrotechnical Laboratory Tsukuba Science City, Japan Running head: Relational processing This work was supported by grants from the Australian Research Council. Author’s address: Graeme Halford, Department of Psychology, University of Qu...

Mental fatigue: costs and benefits.

A framework for mental fatigue is proposed, that involves an integrated evaluation of both expected rewards and energetical costs associated with continued performance. Adequate evaluation of predicted rewards and potential risks of actions is essential for successful adaptive behaviour. However, while both rewards and punishments can motivate to engage in activities, both types of motivated be...