An audit was carried out in the Northern and Yorkshire region to assess postoperative pain management outcomes. Pain scores were measured in the recovery room at 24 hours and at seven days postoperatively, at rest and on movement. A verbal numerical rating score (VNRS) tool was used. Data was also collected on the modalities of pain management. The results show that a large percentage of patien...

The paper is focused on the application of the security audit method on the selected objects of the critical infrastructure. The emphasis is put on security audit method to find gaps in the critical infrastructure security. The theoretical part describes objects of the critical infrastructure. The practical part describes using of the security audit method. The main emphasis was put on the prot...

Medical audit has been defined as "a systematic critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources, and the resulting outcome for the patient". In Britain, recent reforms of the Health Service increase the need for neurologists to undertake audit. The basic principles of audit in relation to the management of common ...

It has become increasingly difficult for the traditional audit information system to find out the necessary audit information from the mass data generated in the large scale application of accounting computerization and ERP software, etc. For the current massive financial and operation information data of enterprises, a new audit model is necessarily explored to satisfy the requirements on mass...

background the purpose of implementing a system such as clinical governance (cg) is to integrate, establish and globalize distinct policies in order to improve quality through increasing professional knowledge and the accountability of healthcare professional toward providing clinical excellence. since cg is related to change, and change requires money and time, cg implementation has to be focu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the care of asthma patients in accident and emergency Departments (A&E) is improved by clinical audit of asthma management. METHODS The quality of care during continuous cycles of clinical audit was compared with that one year later, after an audit programme had ended and most of the medical staff had changed. This was done by a retrospective case notes review o...

This article aims to develop from the theoretical and practical point of view a methodology for the exercise of internal audit of compliance concerning the management of human resources of an entity from the fuzzy logic perspective. The reason for addressing this subject emerges from the great importance that human resource has it within an entity, regardless of its legal form, because its good...

Falls and syncope are symptoms that commonly present to medical services. Detailed international guidelines for their management are available but tend to be aimed at specialists rather than generalists. Novel, evidence-based algorithms for the management of these symptoms when they present to acute medical services were formulated and their impact on patient care audited. The percentage of peo...