OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the viability of energy audit as a management tool in primary care to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of a health center by reducing its operating costs. METHOD We conducted 55 energy audits in health centers from 2005-2010. The health centers were sized between 500 and 3,500 m(2), were located in health areas with 3,...

KAF consists of a process and some templates to guide the planning and execution of audits of knowledge resources, with emphasis on sharing. KAF is based on methodological blueprint provided by the Data Audit Framework (DAF)conceived by the JISC-funded DAFD project.KAF enables organisations to find out what knowledge resources are associated with the project, and how they are shared.KAF is avai...

The financial frauds of recent past have created a lot of attention to financial audits and corporate governance. That attention includes the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This Act has led to numerous changes in corporate governance. But will the changes affect financial fraud? This research attempts to gather empirical evidence about audit committees, S-OX, and whether the guidelines of S-OX hav...

The government, general managers, and professional bodies all agree that medical audit should be implemented throughout the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, it is not yet decided either nationally or locally how audit should be defined and what its implications will be. In an analysis to find ways of measuring the design and effectiveness of hospital audit, therefore, seven main measures emerged t...

we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...