Making the case for personal professional monitoring in health care
Open Access
- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal for Quality in Health Care
- Vol. 15 (1) , 1-2
- https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/15.1.1
Abstract
The use of databases to identify both good and bad (acceptable and unacceptable) trends in the performance of simple and complex procedures in medicine has a long history and was advocated by such important medical and nursing practitioners as Florence Nightingale, Ernest Codman, Lord Moynihan and others [1–7]. Unfortunately, not all of these committed clinicians have gained the respect of their local medical colleagues [2,8,9]. Thus the need for objectively endorsed systems to monitor the occurrence of adverse clinical outcomes in day-to-day practice is paramount [10–12]. In pursuit of this goal the article by Spiegelhalter et al. in this issue is a welcome contribution [13].Keywords
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