Quality improvement in New Zealand healthcare. Part 7: Clinical governance - An attempt to bring quality into reality

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1243, 2006, Pages

  Perkins, Rod ^a   Pelkowitz, Allan ^a   Seddon, Mary ^a   Buchanan, John ^a   Jackson, Rod ^a   Merry, Alan ^a   Robb, Gillian ^a   Sadler, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSIBILITY; TEAMWORK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AUSTRALIA; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750225661     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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