Health Care

Clinical Governance

A framework through which the United Kingdom's National Health Service organizations are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. (Scally and Donaldson, BMJ (4 July 1998): 61-65)

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A framework through which the United Kingdom's National Health Service organizations are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. (Scally and Donaldson, BMJ (4 July 1998): 61-65)

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1 entry terms
  • Governance, Clinical

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2009

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  1. N04w.452.115w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Clinical Governance. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054976. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054976
  2. Clinical Governance. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_governance
  3. Clinical Governance. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3773715