title: Clinical governance: another name for quality - or improving on improvement?
abstract: Clinical governance is one of the current crop of "buzz terms" in the quality world. It may be new, but is it useful? And what does it really mean for those who work at the many and varied levels of the Australian healthcare system?
authors.affiliation: Victorian Quality Council, Department of Human Services. Cathy.Balding@dhs.vic.gov.au
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Balding
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D054869:Clinical Audit; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration