Richard Thomson has research interests in quality in health care and health services research. He previously headed the Northern Regional Health Authority's multidisciplinary quality directorate with responsibility for facilitating audit and quality assurance activities across the region. He has contributed to several national groups concerned with influencing policy on audit, including that at...

background: alcohol consumption is one of the main health problems in most countries. the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of alcohol use disorders identification test (audit). methods: by employing the method of available sampling, 70 alcoholic patients were included as case group and 70 normal age, gender and education matched individuals were also incl...

In modern organizations, Information and Communication Technologies are used to support the organizations’ activities. To manage the quality of the organization processes, audit processes are implemented. Also, the audit processes can aim the quality of ICT systems themselves because their involvement in organization processes. The paper investigates the ways in which a quality management can b...