BACKGROUND Clinical audit can be of valuable assistance to any program which aims to improve the quality of health care and its delivery. Yet without a coherent strategy aimed at evaluating audits' effectiveness, valuable opportunities will be overlooked. Clinical audit projects are required as a part of the formative assessment of trainees in the Family Medicine Residency Program (FMRP) in Kuw...

background: alcohol use disorders (auds) has been recently prioritized as a health problem in iran. the alcohol use disorders identification test (audit) is an easy-to-use diagnostic tool for excessive drinking. this study was designed to assess the validity and reliability of the persian version of audit questionnaire. methods: participants were 70 individuals with aud (study group) and 70 non...

OBJECTIVES To identify the barriers and facilitators of doctors' engagement with clinical audit and to explore how and why these factors influenced doctors' decisions to engage with the NHS National Clinical Audit Programme. DESIGN A single-embedded case study. Mixed methods sequential approach with explorative pilot study and follow-up survey. Pilot study comprised 13 semi-structured intervi...

BACKGROUND Menstrual morbidity plays a significant role in adolescent females' lives. There are no studies to date reporting such data from menstrual health education programs in schools. AIMS The aim of our study was to report results from an audit of a menstrual health and endometriosis education program in secondary schools and observe age patterns of young women presenting for menstrual m...

In this paper we describe a data mining framework for constructing intrusion detection models. The key ideas are to mine system audit data for consistent and useful patterns of program and user behavior, and use the set of relevant system features presented in the patterns to compute (inductively learned) classifiers that can recognize anomalies and known intrusions. Our experiments on audit da...

Purpose – This study examines the mediating effect of effort on the relationship between performance incentives and audit judgment performance under different levels of task complexity. Design/methodology/approach – Using an experimental research design, subjects are randomly assigned to three performance incentive groups: control, financial and feedback. Each subject is required to perform two...