| Title |
Quality improvement in clinical documentation: does clinical governance work?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.2147/jmdh.s53252 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mahlegha Dehghan, Dorsa Dehghan, Akbar Sheikhrabori, Masoume Sadeghi, Mehrdad Jalalian |
| Abstract |
The quality of nursing documentation is still a challenge in the nursing profession and, thus, in the health care industry. One major quality improvement program is clinical governance, whose mission is to continuously improve the quality of patient care and overcome service quality problems. The aim of this study was to identify whether clinical governance improves the quality of nursing documentation. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 169 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 166 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 48 | 28% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 8 | 5% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 31 | 18% |
| Unknown | 43 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 53 | 31% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 20% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 12 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Philosophy | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 8% |
| Unknown | 49 | 29% |