Clinical Governance: An International Journal: Volume 19 Issue 1

First do no more harm …

The purpose of this article is to alert those in positions of trust and authority that there is an urgent need for improvement throughout the entire health profession…

Achieving standards for unscheduled surgical care

The Royal College of Surgeons published Standards for Unscheduled Surgical Care in response to variable clinical outcomes for emergency surgery. The purpose of this study is to…

Clinical audit on treatment of depression in CAMHS

The purpose of this audit cycle was to compare the clinical practice of treating children and adolescents with moderate to severe depression with the NICE guidelines. The second…

From knife to paper: an audit of surgical communication

– The paper aims to assess the quality (content and legibility) of handwritten operation notes and the reader's interpretation of legibility by clinical seniority.

CGIJ review

– The purpose of this review is to enable readers of the journal to gain a quick over-view of articles published in this issue.

Advanced wound care therapies for nonhealing diabetic, venous, and arterial ulcers

Editorial – all changed, changed utterly: again?

2013 Awards for Excellence

Effectiveness of early discharge planning in acutely ill or injured hospitalized older adults

Activity and impact of emergency care practitioners in the NHS

Screening for cognitive impairment in older adults

Safety and efficacy of intravenous iron therapy in reducing requirement for allogeneic blood transfusion

Summaries from the DARE Database

Association between hospitalisation for chronic disease related ambulatory care sensitive conditions and primary health care resourcing

Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections

Immunogenicity of monoclonal antibodies against tumor necrosis factor used in chronic immune-mediated inflammatory conditions