Medical audit among Scottish child psychiatrists

Hindsight bias among psychiatrists.

It is crucial to minimize bias when offering forensic opinions; however, to our knowledge there are few, if any, existing data examining whether psychiatrists are susceptible to one source of such bias, hindsight bias. In the current study, 235 general and forensic psychiatrists reviewed hypothetical cases in which patients with suicidal or homicidal ideation presented for psychiatric care. We ...

Visceral leishmaniasis in a Scottish child.

A Scottish girl acquired visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) while on holiday in Majorca. She presented with the infection, six months later, in Scotland. Because of inexperience with the disease and a degree of scepticism unnecessary investigations were carried out resulting in a delay in treatment.

Scottish audit of interhospital transfers of acutely ill adults

Evaluation of medical audit.

OBJECTIVE To review current knowledge of the effectiveness of medical audit programmes as a whole and of specific interventions within these programmes, as a means of changing clinical behaviour. CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF PUBLISHED REPORTS: Articles listed on Medline from 1985-92 with key words "quality assurance" or "medical audit", and "evaluation" and relevant references from t...

Approaches to medical audit.

The last two or three years have seen an explosion of interest in medical audit, a phrase hitherto barely used in the UK except by a few hardy pioneers (for references, see' 2). Then in quick succession in the last two years appeared the Confidential Enquiry on Perioperative Deaths,3 the Report of the Royal College of Physicians on Medical Audit,4 and the White Paper "Working for patients".5 Th...