BACKGROUND As hospitals seek to drive rapid quality improvement, boards have an opportunity-and a significant responsibility--to make better quality of care the organization's top priority. INTERVENTION "Six things all boards should do to improve quality and reduce harm" are recommended: (1) setting aims--set a specific aim to reduce harm this year; make an explicit, public commitment to meas...

1.1 Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Renal Association The Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee was established by the UK Renal Association (RA) to prepare guidelines for the management of patients with renal disease and help identify the data to be collected by the Renal Registry. The Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee is one of three committees reporting to the Clinical Affairs Boar...

Glasgow University School of Dentistry: Principal Investigators: Ashraf F. Ayoub, Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Alex Crawford, Chief Executive, RCA Trust Gail Gilchrist, Research Manager, Addictions Team, Greater Glasgow NHS Board Ian Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust Adrian Bowman, Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Univer...

Executive Board Members Apostolos Achimastos, Athens, Greece A Nicolaides, Cyprus Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Brescia, Italy Roberto Sa Cunha, Brazil Harry Struijker-Boudier, Utrecht, The Netherlands John Cockcroft, Cardiff, UK Kenji Takazawa, Tokyo, Japan Daniel Duprez, Minneapolis, USA Luc Van Bortel, Brussels, Belgium Jan Filipowski, Pilsen, Czech Republic Hongyu Wang, Beijing, China Joseph Izzo, ...

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the association between voluntary disclosure of compensation and firm value based on the notion that comprehensive information on compensation provides higher transparency signals and lower agency conflict. The evidence shows that firms voluntarily disclosing comprehensive information on director and executive compensation are evaluated with higher market value. How...

Although occupational medicine has been well recognized and well implemented in industry in the United States for a number of years, it is only during the past eight to ten years that the executive health phase of this programme has been stressed to any great extent. That industrial medicine has progressed rather rapidly during the past several years in the United States is shown by its recogni...

This study is aimed at investigating the relationship between corporate governance attributes and director’s remuneration in Nigerian quoted firms. Specifically attempted to proffer answers questions as it relates impact of board size, firm independence, chief executive officer duality on directors' remuneration. Secondary data were extracted from financial statements accounts sampled firms for...

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