OBJECTIVES To explore and describe the views on clinical audit of healthcare purchasers and providers, and in particular the interaction between them, and hence to help the future development of an appropriate interaction between purchasers and providers. DESIGN Semistructured interviews. SETTING Four purchaser and provider pairings in the former Northern Region of the National Health Servi...

BACKGROUND The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research houses two reference laboratories: the virology and tuberculosis laboratories. Both were enrolled in the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme. OBJECTIVE To describe the impact of SLMTA and discuss factors affecting the results, with an emphasis on mentorship. METHODS The SLMTA programme was implement...

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of variations in random audit rates and switching to a conditional audit regime on the quantity and qualit...

Web archives offer a rich and plentiful source of information to researchers, analysts, and legal experts. For this purpose, they gather Web sites as the sites change over time. In order to keep up to high standards of data quality, Web archives have to collect all versions of the Web sites. Due to limited resuources and technical constraints this is not possible. Therefore, Web archives consis...

The problem of abnormal audit fees in the market is more prevalent. To study impact on quality, China's A-share listed companies Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2013 to 2020 were selected as research objects, calculated using pricing model split into positive negative fees, relationship between them quality was analyzed a regression model, this basis, examined. also examines mediating effect concent...

Last year in this journal Hopkins' reviewed the various approaches to "medical audit", and looked at how such audit is likely to develop over the next few years. The essence of his article seems to be that medical audit, if successful, should improve the quality of care. However, Hopkins can provide no evidence that any of the three approaches to medical audit which he outlines achieves this ob...

BACKGROUND The maternal mortality ratio of Uganda is still high and the leading causes of maternal mortality are postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. Criteria-based audit (CBA) is a way of improving quality of care that has not been commonly used in low income countries. This study aimed at finding out the quality of care provided to patients with these conditions a...