Accreditation is usually a voluntary program, in which authorized external peer reviewers
evaluate the compliance of a health care organization with pre-established performance …

Objectives: To determine whether practice structure (for example, list size, number of staff)
predicts team processes and whether practice structure and team process in turn predict …

Clinical governance is a systematic approach to enhancing the quality of primary health care
and ensuring high clinical standards, responsiveness to performance, and continuous …

Since 1948 health care in the United Kingdom (UK) has been centrally funded through the
National Health Service (NHS). The NHS provides both primary and specialist health care …

This paper examines the commercialization of an alternative youth subculture. Sociologists
have typically focused on the ways that authorities have attempted to repress and censor …

Background Leadership and innovation are currently seen as essential elements for the
development and maintenance of high‐quality care. Little is known about the relationship …

Methods• In searching for published papers, policy reports and 'grey literature'relevant to the
review, we used a comprehensive range of sources including key databases, a wide range …

To flourish, practice accreditation must meet challenges. It needs to manage uncertainty
over its effectiveness and cost effectiveness, to address concerns that it erodes professional …

Objectives To explore the potential tension between the need for managers to produce
measurable change and the skills required to produce cultural change, and to investigate …

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study is a qualitative that deep interviews were
performed with 22 managers (senior and middle managers) of educational hospitals of …