In modern organizations, Information and Communication Technologies are used to support the organizations’ activities. To manage the quality of the organization processes, audit processes are implemented. Also, the audit processes can aim the quality of ICT systems themselves because their involvement in organization processes. The paper investigates the ways in which a quality management can b...

The present study aims at investigating the impact of the presence of audit committee and its characteristics on the corporate information environment. These characteristics include independence, financial expertise, size, and the gender of the audit committee. Although several methods have been discussed for measuring information environment in the accounting and finance literature, this resea...

Prevention of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks before they achieve their intrusive objectives is a critical problem in network security. This is because the attacks rapidly build up and flood the networks with disruptive packets that consume network bandwidth within a short range of timestamp. Consequently, network activities are suddenly shutdown and legitimate users that are prese...

OBJECTIVES To compare prospective audit data and secondary administrative register data in the production of performance assessment information in the case of hip fracture treatment, and to cross-validate the quality of information. METHODS First, a conceptual model for the performance assessment of hip fracture treatment was defined. This model was then utilized in comparisons between the pr...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the attitudes of general practitioners to medical audit, and any associations between their attitudes and their personal characteristics. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING --Staffordshire, United Kingdom. SUBJECTS 870 Staffordshire general practitioners. MAIN MEASURES Agreement or disagreement and associations between the attitudes to 16 statements abou...

BACKGROUND In order to stimulate appropriate antimicrobial use and thereby lower the chances of resistance development, an Antibiotic Stewardship Team (A-Team) has been implemented at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. Focus of the A-Team was a pro-active day 2 case-audit, which was financially evaluated here to calculate the return on investment from a hospital perspecti...