Medical audit in a Scottish psychiatric service

The Scottish Medical Service Committee papers.

Audit in a diagnostic breast imaging service

Radiol Bras. 2014 Mar/Abr;47(2):V The present issue of Radiologia Brasileira includes a study discussing the undertaking of an audit in the diagnostic breast imaging service of a private institution and comparing such audit results with those recommended in the literature. The authors conclude that the complete internal audit of the mammography unit reflects the quality of the service and, as a...

Which psychiatric patients board on the medical service?

OBJECTIVES Patients who require psychiatric hospitalization may be admitted to a medical service only because there are no available inpatient psychiatric beds. These patients are psychiatric "boarders." The goals of this study were to describe the extent of the boarder problem and to compare the characteristics of patients who are placed successfully into psychiatric facilities from the emerge...

Assessment of quality in psychiatric nursing documentation – a clinical audit

BACKGROUND Quality in nursing documentation facilitates continuity of care and patient safety. Lack of communication between healthcare providers is associated with errors and adverse events. Shortcomings are identified in nursing documentation in several clinical specialties, but very little is known about the quality of how nurses document in the field of psychiatry. Therefore, the aim of thi...

Scottish medical missionaries in Central Africa.

'Feavers'. He writes a long and sensible letter, from which we gather that he was actually familiar with the patient's present situation, and that she had persistent abdominal pains, violent sweatings, and great weakness. Dr. Forbes goes on to speak slightingly about yet another doctor, Dr. Simpson, who, it seems, was also treating her, for he writes, 'Try first his pills conforming to his own ...