The BSR Standards Guidelines and Audit Working Group (SGAWG)

BSR guidelines on standards of care for persons with rheumatoid arthritis.

The aim is to develop nationally accepted measures for the delivery of care for persons with rheumatoid arthritis. These should usually be recorded as part of the normal clinical care of the patient. Specific situations in which patients may require closer than average monitoring are also discussed. The aim is to obtain the best quality of care within the resources available. The need for multi...

Ethical Guidelines for Internal Audit Reporting Lines

The present study identifies ethical ways of auditing reporting, which define the relationship between internal audit and the various authorities of the organization. Defining these lines as determinants of impartiality and independence of internal audit is of great importance. In this research, the structural equation model has been used to test the proposed model. The information required for...

BSR and BHPR guidelines for the management of polymyalgia rheumatica.

PMR is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease in the elderly and is one of the biggest indications for long-term steroid therapy. There are difficulties in diagnosis, with heterogeneity in presentation, response to steroids and disease course. The aim of these guidelines is a safe and specific diagnostic process for PMR, using continued assessment, and discouragement of hasty initial tr...

Digital Mathematics Library Report of the Technical Standards Working Group

Guidelines, training, audit, and quality standards in children's epilepsy services: Closing the loop

There has been considerable evolution in epilepsy healthcare for children over the last decade in the United Kingdom. There has been no single explanation for this. The development of national clinical guidelines, locally delivered but nationally designed educational programmes, nation-wide clinical audit, clinical networks and development of designated services have all had complimentary roles...