Clinical Guidelines (CGs) are developed for specifying the “best” clinical procedures for specific clinical circumstances. However, a CG is executed on a specific patient, with her peculiarities, and in a specific context, with its limitations and constraints. Physicians have to use Basic Medical Knowledge (BMK) in order to adapt the general CG to each specific case, even if the interplay betwe...

During periods of uncertainty, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, significance Corporate Governance (CG) practices is highlighted. The study aims to evaluate adoption CG in companies listed on Slovak capital market, with a specific focus impact pandemic. data were collected manually from annual reports these companies, and covered period 2016 2021. Index, which developed through Saaty's method, use...

Environmental issues are gaining significant attention at the organizational and country levels because of growing pollution greenhouse gas emissions. This study aimed to examine relationship between governance (CG) environmental protection (EP) level. In addition, further examined outcome EP in developing developed countries. Neoliberal theory was used as an underpinning theory. The data for C...

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BACKGROUND The aim of Clinical Governance (CG) is to the pursuit of quality in health care through the integration of all the activities impacting on the patient into a single strategy.OPTIGOV (Optimizing Health Care Governance) is a methodology for the assessment of the level of implementation of CG within healthcare organizations. The aim of this paper is to explain the process underlying the...

in a recent editorial in this journal pierre-gerlier forest foretells a coming revolution in health policy based on the synthesis of four conceptual innovations and one technological breakthrough. as much as i agree with the intellectual story told in this editorial i present a more skeptical view of the effect of paradigm shifts on healthcare systems on the ground. i argue that ideas triumph w...

We investigate the origin, impact and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship. We compile a dataset across countries of the world from the 19th century, which documents how citizenship laws have evolved from the common and civil law traditions. Contrary to the predictions of legal theory, we show that the original, exogenously-given citizenship laws did not matter for migration flows ...

Clinical governance approaches in Queensland health were trenchantly criticised in 2005 by two external reviews. In designing the new approach to clinical governance it was recognised that clinical governance should not be seen as only being about traditional safety and quality policies. A range of levers and policy instruments have been used in Queensland health to effect a new approach to cli...