Is medical perspective on clinical governance practices associated with clinical units’ performance and mortality? A cross-sectional study through a record-linkage procedure:

SAGE Open Medicine

GuidoSarchielli¹ 

关键词: Clinical governance;    mortality;    efficiency;    attitude of medical staff;    survey;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312116660115

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objective:Assessment of the knowledge and application as well as perceived utility by doctors of clinical governance tools in order to explore their impact on clinical units’ performance measured through mortality rates and efficiency indicators.Methods:This research is a cross-sectional study with a deterministic record-linkage procedure. The sample includes n = 1250 doctors (n = 249 chiefs of clinical units; n = 1001 physicians) working in six public hospitals located in the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. Survey instruments include a checklist and a research-made questionnaire which were used for data collection about doctors’ knowledge and application as well as perceived utility of clinical governance tools. The analysis was based on clinical units’ performance indicators which include patients’ mortality, extra-region active mobility rate, average hospital stay, bed occupancy, rotation and turnover rates, and the comparative performance index as efficiency indicators.Results:The clinical governance ...

【 授权许可】

CC BY