OBJECTIVES To describe and evaluate the use of medical audit in general practice as an educational activity shared by undergraduate medical students and general practitioners. DESIGN A descriptive study, evaluated by a questionnaire survey of all participating practices and by results of completed student projects on general practice audit topics during three weeks in the first year of comple...

Lumbar puncture (LP) is a common invasive procedure in the acute medical setting but is not without its risks and complications, making best clinical practice and correct documentation important for patient safety. Previous audit revealed poor levels of consistency in technique and documentation in the acute medical setting, highlighting it as an area for improvement. This project aims to ident...

Clinical practice audit is potentially useful for selfassessment and quality improvement in medicine. The audit process has been shown to help decrease cesarean section rates, improve seizure management, and improve physician prescribing of antibiotics for upper respiratory infections, to name just a few benefits. Much of what is called “audit” in the medical literature could more appropriately...

Introduction: Continuing professional education activities such as professional conferences and passive dissemination of literature appear to have no little or no impact on changing clinicians' practice. A clinical activities audit was carried out with a group (44) of chiropractors and osteopaths as part of the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia's continuing professional develo...

OBJECTIVE Reducing the rate of severe postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major challenge in obstetrics today. One potentially effective tool for improving the quality of care is the clinical audit, that is, peer evaluation and comparison of actual practices against explicit criteria. Our objective was to assess the impact of regular criteria-based audits on the prevalence of severe PPH. DESIGN...

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,...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, ser. 64/3     extended abstract   monitoring role of auditing and corporate dividend payout policies   dr. v. khodadadi              s. hajizadeh               r. ghorbani shahid chamran university of ahvaz   introduction the aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between monitoring role of independent auditing and corporate ...