Audit in general practice: where do we go from here?

Adhesive small bowel obstruction: where do we stand now?

Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is one of the most frequently encountered disorders in Emergency Surgery Departments worldwide without negligible hospital admission rates and social costs (1,2). Notwithstanding significant improvements in techniques and materials, intra-abdominal adhesions following abdominal surgery still represent a major unsolved and debated issue harbouring challeng...

Where do we go from here? Caring versus the system.

Aspects of audit. 3: Audit in British general practice.

Compared with hospitals, general practice has many handicaps in developing medical audit. This is especially true with regard to defining objectives and outcomes of care. Many methods have been proposed to overcome these problems, and several audit studies that have been published are presented here. Further work should concentrate on evaluating the effectiveness of audit in bringing about chan...

Ethics committee review of medical audit: a personal view from the United Kingdom.

Until now, medical practice in the United Kingdom has, unlike in medical research, largely resisted ethics committee scrutiny of clinical audit. I support this position. On what grounds do I do so? Are there suYcient diVerences between medical research and medical audit to reliably sustain this thesis? I shall argue that research ethics committees may be operating under philosophical constraint...

The Study and Assessment of Factors Affecting on Tax Lags in the Iranian Tax System (A Case Study of Mazandaran Province’s Tax Directorate General)

Abstract This research aims at studying and assessing factors affecting on tax lags in Iran. The statistical population of study consists of 45 active manufacturing companies in the center of Mazandaran province that have filed and submitted their tax returns and related documents during the years 2009 to 2013, and their final taxes have been determined and have reached to the stage of collect...