The use of weekly departmental review of all orthopaedic intra-operative radiographs in order to improve quality, due to standardized peer expectations and the 'Hawthorne effect'

摘要

Introduction: Clinical governance highlights risk management, clinical effectiveness and use of evidence based practice as key elements in the provision of a quality service. A change in the method of quality control in our orthopaedic trauma unit allowed us the opportunity to study if the quality of operative outcomes had changed as a result. The Hawthorne effect refers to phenomenon whereby employees work quality improves by virtue of their awareness that their labour is being assessed.