Healthcare Governance for Quality and Safety: The New Agenda
Jeff Clough
David B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A.

Concerns about poor quality and patient safety in the healthcare setting have drawn much national attention. Governing boards of healthcare organizations have the principal fiduciary responsibility to ensure quality and safety for their patients. In addition, initiatives such as pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing, as well as the high costs associated with poor quality, are making high quality vital to healthcare organizations’ financial success.

In light of these trends, governing boards must make quality of care and patient safety top priorities to ensure their organizations’ success. The literature pertaining to governance for quality and safety is rapidly expanding and provides much useful information to assist trustees and other stakeholders in healthcare organizations to meet these challenges.

Mr. Clough and Dr. Nash are affiliated with Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Nash is the Dr Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor and chairman in the Department of Health Policy. This annotated bibliography has been made available to Governance Institute members with permission from the authors.