Footnotes
1. Dr. David Bates & Dr. Atul Gawande. Improving Safety with Information Technology. New England Journal of Medicine. 348:2526-34. 2003
2. Information assurance is an umbrella term which covers all aspects of proper management of information, including information governance.
3. See www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/portal//ig/Pages/index.aspx for more details.
4. Scotland's strategy for the development of community hospitals.
5. Delivering for Remote and Rural Healthcare prepared by the Remote and Rural Steering Group in November 2007.
6. Institute of Medicine, Committee on Health Care in America. Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st Century. Washington ( DC): National Academy Press; 2001.
7. www.clinicaldecisions.scot.nhs.uk