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

Table 7 Comparison of engagement levels based on existing literature

Commonly cited processes	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8
Evaluating Healthcare Quality
Board quality committee exists [10,11,12, 15, 16]	✓	✓	✓^a	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Board regularly review quality healthcare performance [8, 10,11,12,13, 30]	✓	✓	✓^a	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Board uses a quality scorecard or dashboard [12, 15, 16, 55, 61]	✓	✓	✓^a	✓		✓	✓	✓
Trending and benchmarking performance [12, 15, 16]	✓	✓	✓^a	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Board Agenda has an item on quality (includes quality agenda item or quality directorate report but excludes BQC minutes) [1, 8, 12, 61]	✓	✓	✓^a	✓^a			✓
Overseeing Quality Priorities
Board has established or endorsed goals relating to patient outcomes [1, 8, 12, 30, 61]	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓

^aThrough dedicated committee which whole board attends (C3 BQC and C4 Performance Committee)

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