Background The purpose of implementing a system such as Clinical Governance (CG) is to integrate, establish and globalize distinct policies in order to improve quality through increasing professional knowledge and the accountability of healthcare professional toward providing clinical excellence. Since CG is related to change, and change requires money and time, CG implementation has to be focu...

INTRODUCTION Clinical governance as an approach to improving the quality and safety of clinical care has been run in all Iranian hospitals since 2009. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the processes and challenges faced in implementing clinical governance (CG) in acute-care hospitals in Iran. METHODS We conducted an in-depth, qualitative, multi-case study using semi-stru...

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We explore how the combinations of firm-level corporate governance (CG) practices embedded in different national governance systems lead to high firm performance. Research Findings/Insights: Using fuzzy set/qualitative comparative analysis, we uncover a variety of findings. First, we show that within each of the stylized national CG models, th...

BACKGROUND Clinical governance (CG) is an approach to quality improvement in healthcare aimed at achieving a patient-centered health care system. The main objective of this study was to highlight human centered healthcare latent factors underlying the results of a CG assessment performed in the teaching hospital "A. Gemelli" of Rome, Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS CG implementation levels were ...

background quality improvement should be assigned as the main mission for healthcare providers. clinical governance (cg) is used not only as a strategy focusing on responding to public and government’s intolerance of poor healthcare standards, but also it is implemented for quality improvement in a number of countries. this study aims to identify the key contributing factors in the implementati...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

HE title 'clinical governance' is now part of our vocabulary, although it is not clear to many what it entails. 1 It is stated to be a famework to enable clinicians to continuously improve quality and safeguard standards of care. 2,3 In fact, it is a new label for old ingredients. These ingredients include clinical audit, guidelines, complaint procedures, clinical supervision, risk management ,...

medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). in the previous issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the asia pacific region have been discussed (2). perhaps, there is now an urg...

The chief benefits of acquiring or merging with another CG company are to create or expand new lines of service or enter new geographical markets and enhance the product portfolio. In economic times where organic growth is hard to come by, these are powerful considerations. Acquiring a smaller player can offer a large CG company greater flexibility and quicker time to market -a key advantage no...