Clinical Governance: An International Journal: Volume 17 Issue 2

Mandatory reporting of healthcare associated infections: Can US experience inform Canadian policy?

This editorial aims to summarize major points from and explains the rationale of a symposium convened in Canada to explore whether American experience with mandatory public…

Public health implications of healthcare‐associated infections: Problems and prospects

From the symposium keynote address, this paper aims to explore how healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs) have been transformed from being only a hospital concern to a much…

Mandatory public reporting: The New York State experience

This paper aims to describe experience to date with mandatory public reporting of healthcare‐associated infection rates from a perspective inside one of the first and most…

The US experience with mandatory public reporting

From a perspective inside one of the most advanced of the state programs, this presentation aims to explore issues of whom are we trying to reach; what information are we trying…

Public reporting of HAI rates: What we (mostly don't) know

Health‐care associated infections (HAIs) kill about 100,000 people annually; many are preventable. In response, 18 states currently require hospitals to publicly report their…

Factors influencing healthcare consumers' search for healthcare associated infection information on the World Wide Web

This paper seeks to provide a narrative review of some of the factors that influence healthcare consumers' information seeking involving healthcare associated infections (HAI) on…

State and federal legislative interests

This paper aims to briefly describe the increasingly complex array of organizations influencing American healthcare‐associated infection (HAI) prevention efforts during the modern…

What can Canada learn from the USA's experience in reducing healthcare‐associated infections?

The purpose of this paper is to briefly review the history of healthcare‐associated infection (HAI) prevention programs in the USA since the early 1970s until today, and provide…

EVerT: cryotherapy versus salicylic acid for the treatment of verrucae – a randomised controlled trial

A systematic review and economic evaluation of cilostazol, naftidrofuryl oxalate, pentoxifylline and inositol nicotinate for the treatment of intermittent claudication in people with peripheral arterial disease

Behavioural strategies in diabetes prevention programs

Enhanced recovery pathways optimize health outcomes and resource utilization

Prostate Specific Antigen Based Screening for Prostate Cancer

Statins for primary prevention in people at low cardiovascular risk

Effect of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery on 10-year recurrence and 15-year breast cancer death

Health technology assessment

The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different surveillance mammography regimens after the treatment for primary breast cancer: systematic reviews, registry database analyses and economic evaluation

Effectiveness of behavioural smoking cessation interventions in selected disadvantaged groups

Comparisons between different polychemotherapy regimens for early breast cancer

Effect of metformin on cardiovascular events and mortality

Antihypertensive drugs and risk of cancer

Self monitoring of oral anticoagulation