Notes: a suitable case for audit.

Notes: a suitable case for audit.

The increasing emphasis on management responsibilities and audit led us to investigate the state of surgical notes in our hospital. Twelve criteria were evaluated regarding information that should be contained in the notes and the absence of this important information was documented. Deficiencies were revealed in all criteria selected. Until hospital patients files are well kept and maintained,...

Travel medicine and general practice: a suitable case for audit?

Travel medicine becomes more important with the continual expansion of international travel and the increased popularity of exotic holiday destinations. In the United Kingdom general practitioners provide the bulk of travel health advice and immunisation and there is growing interest in providing these services. While their armamentarium has been expanded with attractive but expensive new vacci...

Hospital case notes and medical audit: evaluation of non-response.

Notes on Woodin’s Suitable Extenders

By the countable completeness of μ, Ult(V, μ) is wellfounded, and we identify it with its Mostowski collapse. Applying Loś’s Theorem, we get that the corresponding supercompactness embedding, the map sending each set a to [f ]μ, where f is the function on Pκ(λ) with constant value a, is elementary. 1.3 Definition. For any embedding j : M → N , where M is a model in the language of set theory, w...

Incompleteness and retrieval of case notes in a case note audit of colorectal cancer.

Hospital case notes are a crucial source of data but are subject to two major biases: incompleteness of data and non-retrieval. To assess these biases in relation to colorectal cancer a study was performed of all cases of colorectal cancer listed in the Thames cancer registry in patients resident in one of four districts in South Thames regions with a diagnosis in 1988. Five medical record site...