BACKGROUND To study the feasibility of using criteria-based audit to improve a district referral system. METHODS A criteria-based audit was used to assess the Salima District referral system in Malawi. A retrospective review of 60 obstetric emergencies referred from 12 health centres was conducted and compared with prior established standards for optimal referral of emergencies. Recommendatio...

Information security audit is a monitoring/logging mechanism to ensure compliance with regulations and to detect abnormalities, security breaches, and privacy violations; however, auditing too many events causes overwhelming use of system resources and impacts performance. Consequently, a classification of events is used to prioritize events and configure the log system. Rules can be applied ac...

For the application background on a guidance of audit information resource, this paper constructs the ontology of audit methods which is suitable for medical insurance in audit field, and provides information basis for the ontology-based rule reasoning, through utilizing the collected relevant information of audit methods in actual work of medical insurance. Then, the paper mainly researches th...

Methods The audit design was a multi centre 2 day snapshot audit undertaken for 2 consecutive 24hr periods in July 2013. Data was collected on a standard proforma by nominated data collectors in each critical care unit. The audit standards were adopted from ARDSNET with a target tidal ventilation of 6ml/kg (based on ideal body weight, calculated from patients ulnar length), peak inspiratory pre...

One hundred consecutive referral letters, sent by dental practitioners to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dublin Dental School and Hospital, were audited in terms of quality. The audit was based on the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) recommendations of 1998. The audit demonstrated that in general referral letters required modification and did not give the cl...

light of recommendations of ACR. STUDY DESIGN Aclinical audit. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Radiology, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, from August 2015 to February 2016. METHODOLOGY Scans of 20 patients who underwent MRI of knee in August 2015 were studied retrospectively to assess the quality of images obtained in the first audit. Based on the findings of this audit, recommendation...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major health and financial burden. VTE impacts health outcomes in surgical and non-surgical patients. VTE prophylaxis is underutilized, particularly amongst high risk medical patients. We conducted a multicentre clinical audit to determine the extent to which appropriate VTE prophylaxis in acutely ill hospitalized medical patients could be improved v...

Good nursing handover is central to the delivery of high-quality care. However, there are no national tools available to audit and benchmark practice standards in this area. Following a review of the literature, evidence-based best practice standards were identified and used by the author to audit nursing handover in one acute NHS trust in the UK. Results of the audit were used to assure qualit...

Privacy audit logs are used to capture the actions of participants in a data sharing environment in order for auditors to check compliance with privacy policies. However, collusion may occur between the auditors and participants to obfuscate actions that should be recorded in the audit logs. In this paper, we propose a Linked Data based method of utilizing blockchain technology to create tamper...