UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF HEALTHCARE QUALITY: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF EIGHT AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HOSPITALS

Understanding corporate governance of healthcare quality: a comparative case study of eight Australian public hospitals

Abstract Background Patients are sometimes harmed in the course of receiving hospital care.Existing research has highlighted a positive association between board engagement in healthcare quality activities and healthcare outcomes.However, most research has been undertaken through surveys examining board engagement in a limited number of governance

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Innocent Body-Shadow Mimics Physical Body

The paradigm of the rubber hand illusion was applied to a shadow to determine whether the body-shadow is a good candidate for the alternative belonging to our body.Three kinds of shadows, a physical hand, a hand-shaped cloth, and a rectangle cloth, were tested for this purpose.The questionnaire results showed that both Vegan Protein Powder anatomic

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Repression and Criminalization of the Ecologist Movement in the Basque Country: the Case of the High Speed Train Project

This article offers an analysis of the process of criminalization, which, in the authors’ opinion, the Basque Ecologist Movement (BEM) has suffered in its fight against the High Speed Train (HST).The text is structured in five sections.The initial section highlights the main characteristics of the BEM from its origins to the present, indicati

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