Post-Enron Implicit Audit Reporting Standards: Sifting through the Evidence

Triaging suicidal patients: sifting through the evidence.

The triaging of individuals who present to general hospital emergency departments with suicidal thoughts and behaviours is especially challenging and fraught with uncertainty. Although the suicide literature is vast, and risk factor research has a long history, there is a dearth of articles that address the "point of care" factors that need to be considered in triaging a suicidal patient. In or...

Sifting through the first evidence for inflation

Evidence of eVectiveness of clinical audit in improving histopathology reporting standards of mastectomy specimens

Aim—To assess the eVectiveness of clinical audit in improving standards in histopathological reporting of mastectomy specimens. Methods—Reports on mastectomy specimens containing tumour issued by nonspecialist histopathologists in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 were scored for their information content. There were 10 reports evaluated from each year. Before 1990 no reporting guidelines had been for...

Evidence of effectiveness of clinical audit in improving histopathology reporting standards of mastectomy specimens.

AIM To assess the effectiveness of clinical audit in improving standards in histopathological reporting of mastectomy specimens. METHODS Reports on mastectomy specimens containing tumour issued by non-specialist histopathologists in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 1996 were scored for their information content. There were 10 reports evaluated from each year. Before 1990 no reporting guidelines had been...

Re: Colorectal cancer screening: sifting through the evidence.

In his editorial, Dr. Levin (1) states that “the report by Mandel et al. substantiates the important and clear finding that screening of men and women more than 50 years of age for colorectal cancer can save lives.” However, the article by Mandel et al. (2) clearly demonstrates that overall mortality was unaffected by screening. The cumulative allcause mortality in the annually screened group w...