BACKGROUND The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) initiated a unique instrument to audit the quality of patient notes and radiotherapy prescriptions. We present our experience collected over ten years from the use of the RANZCR audit instrument. METHODS In this study, the results of data collected prospectively from January 1999 to June 2009 through the audit in...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) merupakan suatu program yang mengacu pada pendekatan multidisiplin untuk mengoptimalkan ketepatan penggunaan antibiotik di berbagai institusi fasilitas kesehatan terutama rumah sakit. Implementasi ASP efektif ditentukan oleh komunikasi antar tenaga kesehatan, sumber daya manusia serta sarana dan prasarana. Beberapa dekade terakhir, penelitian terkait impl...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the Flinders Program™ of chronic condition management on alcohol use, psychosocial well-being and quality of life in Vietnam veterans with alcohol misuse. METHOD This 9-month wait-list, randomised controlled trial used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score ≥ 8 as the entry criterion. Intervention veterans received the Flinders Progra...

in this study, the effect of audit quality on agency costs and information asymmetry has been examined. among the accepted companies 99 ones in tehran stock exchange were selected for statistical samples from 1385 to 1392 in order to attain the research purposes. to measure the audit quality, it has been used the observable variables such as the percentage of institutional investors, the type o...

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, May 17, 2011, 183(8) 893 years ago, it began requiring codes of conduct as a condition of hospital accreditation. The codes have to define acceptable, disruptive and inappropriate behaviours, Schyve says, adding that the purpose of such codes is to encourage a culture of safety, where people feel free to report adverse events, close cal...

BACKGROUND The Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) funds an ongoing health promotion based program to improve use of medicines and related health services, which implements interventions that include audit and feedback in the form of patient-specific feedback generated from administrative claims records. We aimed to determine changes in medicine use as a result of the pr...

Objectives This study explores how medical graduates and their workplace supervisors perceive the value of a structured clinical audit program (CAP) undertaken during medical school. Methods Medical students at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle complete a structured clinical audit program in their final year of medical school.  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Notre Dame...