Medical advisory machinery.

Employment Medical Advisory Service.

The Employment Medical Advisory Service.

The historical development of the Employment Medical Advisory Service is described, and the Service's present organization is related to its range of activities, including its role as a source of information and advice on occupational health. The Employment Medical Advisory Service's influence on the development of occupational health practice, the collection of new knowledge and its adaptabili...

An Active Distributed Medical Advisory System

− For the last few decades, medical practitioners and specialists have been waiting for efficient medical advisory systems. Most of current computer-aided diagnosis systems are rather passive. Health data, a rich source of medical knowledge, often have not been used efficiently for medical treatment as well as financial management. Their accesses are very limited. This paper introduces the desi...

Developing role of medical audit advisory groups.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the approaches to audit of different medical audit advisory groups (MAAGs) and to consider the implications for evaluation of their activities and their developing role in the light of new priorities for clinical audit. DESIGN Qualitative study based on semistructured interviews. SETTING 15 family health services authority (FHSA) districts in two English health reg...

Auditing audits: the method of Oxfordshire Medical Audit Advisory Group.

OBJECTIVES To develop a systematic method for both summative and formative audit of practice audits, and to use the method to review Oxfordshire practice audits and to plan improvement. DESIGN Development of a coding system for the audit cycle subsequently used prospectively to assess audits reported to medical audit advisory group coordinators on practice visits. SETTING All 85 general pra...