Occupational health management: an audit tool

Occupational health and safety management audit instruments: A literature review

[Energy audit: a management tool in health centers].

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the viability of energy audit as a management tool in primary care to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of a health center by reducing its operating costs. METHOD We conducted 55 energy audits in health centers from 2005-2010. The health centers were sized between 500 and 3,500 m(2), were located in health areas with 3,...

Applied Wound Management as an audit tool to inform practice

Pam Cooper, David Gray, Fiona Russell and Sandra Stringfellow are Clinical Nurse Specialists; John Timmons, Melvyn Bertram, Kristine Duguid, Gail Pirie and Evelyn Quinn are Tissue Viability Nurses, all at the Department of Tissue Viability, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen Wound care practice can be difficult to monitor due to the complex nature of wounds, the patients, the variety of dressings, and the ...

Characteristics of national registries for occupational diseases: international development and validation of an audit tool (ODIT)

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to develop quality indicators that can be used for quality assessment of registries of occupational diseases in relation to preventive policy on a national level. The research questions were: 1. Which indicators determine the quality of national registries of occupational diseases with respect to their ability to provide appropriate information for preventive...

Audit or assessment tools for occupational health letters or reports.

Lalloo et al. [1] are to be commended for undertaking further research on methods of auditing the process and outputs of occupational physicians’ reports, which usually take the form of correspondence with referring managers. To supplement their literature search, readers should be aware that your journal has published research regarding this issue in the past and occupational physicians’ repor...