A frequently occurring job during on-call and out-of-hours shifts is reviewing a patient following a fall with this often being the responsibility of the most junior and inexperienced doctors. Following a pilot audit we identified inconsistencies in medical assessment and documentation, with 50% of expected data points not recorded. Failure to complete a thorough assessment can lead to missed i...

BACKGROUND Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the commonest gastrointestinal emergency in neonates. It is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Present study was conducted to determine the frequency of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates along with their outcome during stay in hospital. METHODS This was descriptive case series carried out in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NIC...

BACKGROUND Liver cirrhosis is a serious disease which can lead to liver failure. The main objective of this study was to ascertain the frequency of gallstones in patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS One hundred and fifty patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected from Medical Unit-IV for this cross sectional study. Their abdominal ultrasound was done to diagnose liver cirrhosi...

Introduction In a broad literature review on the subject we did not find structured interviews in context of mental health organizations. However, are common use business field. Family Science assessment methods families have fallen into two main categories. The first one is comprised based evaluation family members’ individual answers, while second group answers. Structured Business Interview ...

Clinical Handover remains one of the most perilous procedures in medicine (1). Weekend handover has emerged as a key area of concern with high variability in handover processes across hospitals (1,2,4, 5-10). Studying weekend handover processes within medicine at an acute teaching hospital revealed huge variability in documented content and structure. A total of 12 different pro formas were in ...

preliminary design ideas, mostly not manifest, are generated in the designers’ minds at the very early stages of their encounter with the design problems. this paper reports a study of the sources from which these ideas are originated, and the corresponding role each source plays in the process of designing. the study was undertaken through the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight ...

The authors review the role of financial accounting information from the perspective of a radiology executive. They begin by introducing the role of pro forma statements. They discuss the fundamental concepts of accounting, including the matching principle and accrual accounting. The authors then explore the use of financial accounting information in making investment decisions in diagnostic me...

Abstract Introduction Within our Trust, Orthopaedic patients are clerked in on A&E notes via freehand text. Audit, clinical incidents, and root cause analysis revealed suboptimal documentation. Using RCSEng Best Practice Guidelines we designed, implemented, evaluated the impact of an admission pro-forma quality clerking. Method An clerking was designed based standards set by feedback from c...