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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Health care leadership, quality and safety

The latest special issue of the Australian Health Review celebrates the work and leadership of Professor Mike Ward, currently Commissioner of the Health Quality and Complaints Commission in Queensland but previously inaugural Senior Director of the Clinical Practice Improvement Centre in Queensland Health.
The first section, on leadership, includes four articles which canvas aspects of the leadership development programs conducted by Queensland Health over the last three years.
A second cluster of articles deal with quality and safety policy, including an overview of statistical methods and what should be measured.
Finally, a third cluster of papers relate to interventions to stimulate quality and safety improvement.
The article, "Patient safety — a balanced measurement framework" is free online but other articles you will need to go to the journal website, look at the contents and request the articles through your Library.

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