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Clinical governance: An investigation of a clinical practice issue

   

Added on  2020-02-05

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TABLEOF CONTENTSIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3PICO............................................................................................................................................4Searching the evidence....................................................................................................................4Critical appraisal..............................................................................................................................7What actions to take from the findings............................................................................................7Evaluate new and amended practice................................................................................................8References........................................................................................................................................82

INTRODUCTIONClinical governance is regarded as a systematic approach that is used to maintain andimprove the quality of patient care within a health care system. Basically, it is a frameworkthrough which health care entities can adopt new measures to improve the quality of services andthis can also be done by safeguarding the standard of care Ebrahimpour, Yaghubi and Zahedi(2016. pp.75-83). In the present research study, discussion has been made about the issue of fallsin health care sector which needs appropriate prevention. In the subsequent issue, clinicalgovernance is relevant because it assists the health care entities to ascertain what actions can betaken to minimize risks and incidents related to falls. Furthermore, in the study, several articleshave been reviewed to specify the aspects concerned with falls Fisher and et.al. (2016. pp.14-16).Fall related hospitalization is particularly common among older people and in the year2011 – 2012, around 96,385 people aged 65 and over were hospitalized in Australia. Moreover,the increasing rate of fall- related hospital admission reflects that the issue of cost burden isincreasing rapidly. In older people, the ratio has been increased to 2.3% from last 10 years. (Source: Falls in older people, 2017)Australians aged over 65 injured in a fall and they spent a total of 1,397,589 days inhospitals and these patient bed days accounted for 10.5% of all hospital patient days for this agegroup. In has been analysed that in terms of morbidity and mortality, the most serious of thesefall related injuries is fracture of the hip. The cost burden of Australian hospitals have been3

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