Medical audit: basic principles and current methods

Guidelines for medical audit: seven principles.

The government, general managers, and professional bodies all agree that medical audit should be implemented throughout the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, it is not yet decided either nationally or locally how audit should be defined and what its implications will be. In an analysis to find ways of measuring the design and effectiveness of hospital audit, therefore, seven main measures emerged t...

Basic Principles of Virtual Element Methods

Basic Principles of Mixed Virtual Element Methods

The aim of this paper is to give a simple, introductory presentation of the extension of the Virtual Element Method to the discretization of H(div)-conforming vector fields (or, more generally, of (n − 1) − Cochains). As we shall see, the methods presented here can be seen as extensions of the so-called BDM family to deal with more general element geometries (such as polygons with an almost arb...

Basic Principles and Current Issues of Sar Interferometry

The principles of SAR interferometry, in particular phase unwrapping and geocoding, are described. Interferometric point positioning is treated based on a least squares approach avoiding approximations. Current issues of SAR interferometry are discussed: atmospheric effects on spaceborne repeat-pass interferometry limiting the accuracy and reliability of Digital Elevation Models (DEM), the Shut...

The paediatric airway: basic principles and current developments.

Perioperative airway problems frequently result in significant morbidity and mortality in children. Therefore, proficiency in airway management is one of the most important key elements in the safe conduct of paediatric anaesthesia. This review includes important anatomical and physiological aspects of the paediatric airway, challenges encountered, and their management with commonly available r...