Research, audit and quality improvement.

Consequences of The Auditor's Confidence to The Client and The Provision of Solutions

The purpose of this study is to explain the model of auditor trust in the client with an emphasis on pathology and presenting a strategy using a qualitative research method and grounded theory approach. This study was conducted in 1398 by conducting 12 in-depth interviews with partners of auditing institutes, members of the Iranian Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Audit and Manag...

Research and development in quality of care: establishing the research agenda.

Introduction Quality of care has, in the past decades, evolved into a new important field of work including activities such as quality assurance, clinical audit, quality improvement, and quality management. It has gradually become a domain with its own concrete aims, its own typical methods and techniques, and its own specific educational programmes, journals, societies, meetings, conferences, ...

Patient Education Improvement: an Interventional Study in Iran

Beyond quality improvement: exploring why primary care teams engage in a voluntary audit and feedback program

BACKGROUND Despite its popularity, the effectiveness of audit and feedback in support quality improvement efforts is mixed. While audit and feedback-related research efforts have investigated issues relating to feedback design and delivery, little attention has been directed towards factors which motivate interest and engagement with feedback interventions. This study explored the motivating fa...

What do we know about how to do audit and feedback? Pitfalls in applying evidence from a systematic review

BACKGROUND Improving the quality of health care requires a range of evidence-based activities. Audit and feedback is commonly used as a quality improvement tool in the UK National Health Service [NHS]. We set out to assess whether current guidance and systematic review evidence can sufficiently inform practical decisions about how to use audit and feedback to improve quality of care. METHODS ...