Clinical service review--a framework.
Continuous challenge of the way in which healthcare is delivered is one of the features which characterises the current environment for health authorities. As a consequence, managers face the pressure to review their services thoroughly and regularly. Part of the challenge to managers is to examine and define explicitly the role and function of services; to ensure that services are appropriate to the needs of the population; that they are effective in terms of outcome; that they are of high quality; and that they deploy resources in a cost-effective and efficient way. Tracy Hanson and Derek Mowbray show how this can be done.
D004526:Efficiency; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009934:Organization and Administration / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom