Volume 1 Number 4 contents

Editorial

Leading clinical governance
M Edwards and G Batstone

Original articles

Models for disseminating information on clinical effectiveness in health organisations: lessons from the Sheffield DICE Project
A Booth and C Price

Dysphagia screeing, assessment and outcomes in stroke patients: phase 1 of an evidence-based project
L Perry and S M McLaren

Optimising delivery of care for chronic heart failure
A L Clark and J G F Cleland

Systematic review of the surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea
S A Bridgman and K M Dunn

Inappropriate bed usage in a district general hospital 
A Fenn, P Horner, S Travis, G Prescott, H Figg and T Bates

Improving asthma care through audit
M D Ayriss, R H Bruins, M Davidson and A Goel

Measuring in-patient satisfaction: a review of a psychiatric in-patient satisfaction survey
N Smedley and S Nesbitt

Implementation of a policy to reduce the incidence and severity of lymphoedema following the treatment of breast cancer
P J Gomes, V Long and P Barker

A model for auditing informed consent: important issues, sensitive approaches and realistic debates
J Gladstone and B Campbell

Short report

A comparison of the automatic gun needle and the manual technique in liver biopsies
J Tharakan, C Dick, N Godfrey and A Hossenbocus

Practice digests

Press releases

Letters to the editors