Journal of Clinical Effectiveness: Volume 2 Issue 4

Impact of accreditation systems upon patient care

Ellie Scrivens

Accreditation in health care is a method of reviewing the quality of the organization of health care, using external surveyors and published standards. It is frequently contrasted…

Clinical Pathology Accreditation: a quality system for diagnostic pathology services

J.S. Lilleyman, C. Blair

Clinical Pathology Accreditation is a UK‐based scheme for the accreditation of pathology services. It was established 5 years ago and has now been adopted by over two thirds of UK…

Fellowship by assessment of the Royal College of General Practitioners: improving patient care

Mike Pringle

Fellowship by Assessment of the Royal College of General Practitioners was first introduced in 1989. This followed the ‘What Sort of Doctor?’ initiative, which explored the…

Finding and evaluating sources of evidence: nicotine replacement therapy as a case study

Andrew Booth

Although in many decision‐making contexts it may be a problem actually to find any evidence there are already a number of topics where the challenge is presented by the…

Taking on the Welsh initiative: an innovative collaborative venture

Susan Cervetto, Jeremy Savage

In response to the Welsh Clinical Effectiveness Initiative, Carmarthen and District NHS Trust, UK, has established a series of innovative partnership agreements with six…

National survey of UK clinical guidelines for the management of coronary heart disease, lung and breast cancer, asthma and depression

Françoise Cluzeau, Peter Littlejohns, Jeremy Grimshaw, Gene Feder

There is anecdotal evidence of a plethora of guidelines developed throughout the NHS. A national survey was carried out between March and June 1995 to identify the number of…