Practical experiences in auditing patient outcomes.

Practical experiences in auditing patient outcomes.

Clinical auditing to improve patient outcomes

Auditing: what is it all about? Clinical audit is about measuring the quality of care we provide against relevant standards. If we are failing to meet these standards, the audit should help us understand the factors that are causing us to fail, so that we can set priorities and make improvements. Auditing forms part of a cycle of activities: • Selecting standards (setting our own or adopting e...

Gamifying learning experiences: Practical implications and outcomes

Gamification is the use of game design elements and game mechanics in non-game contexts. This idea has been used successfully in many web based businesses to increase user engagement. Some researchers suggest that it could also be used in web based education as a tool to increase student motivation and engagement. In an attempt to verify those theories, we have designed and built a gamification...

Practical Challenges with Spreadsheet Auditing Tools

Just like other software, spreadsheets can contain significant faults. Static analysis is an accepted and well-established technique in software engineering known for its capability to discover faults. In recent years, a growing number of tool vendors started offering tools that allow casual end-users to run various static analyses on spreadsheets as well. We supervised a study where three unde...

Investing in a Surgical Outcomes Auditing System

Background. Humanitarian surgical organizations consider both quantity of patients receiving care and quality of the care provided as a measure of success. However, organizational efficacy is often judged by the percent of resources spent towards direct intervention/surgery, which may discourage investment in an outcomes monitoring system. Operation Smile's established Global Standards of Care ...