Accountability: Medical, Legal, and Quality Implications

Abstract

The most effective skill a professional leader has is effective decision-making. The most effective novice, and experienced, leaders develop a decision-making model in everyday business life. When creating a development plan, it is necessary to consider a number of ideas. It may be necessary to have meetings with colleagues or superiors and take a diary and review events later to see how the information can be applied to the development plan. Another possible method for developing target goals is to attend a strategy meeting not normally attended, reviewing notes taken at a later date to see what they may add to the decision-making model. Four elements of a good decision-making model include: clear goal setting, what has happened so far (information about the past), ideas on how the goal can be achieved based on past, present, and future information, and a decision taken in the present with a strong commitment for follow through; the purpose of this paper is to discuss some factors associated with accountability. It is necessary for the business leader to take into consideration factors such as strategy and development, project development, medical management, and information systems management. This paper is an examination of these factors and explores some scenes of accountability.