The medical audit as an operational tool.

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 ...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

Tactical Medical Logistics Planning Tool: Modeling Operational Risk Assessment

TACTICAL MEDICAL LOGISTICS PLANNING TOOL: MODELING OPERATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT The Tactical Medical Logistics Planning Tool (TML+) is a software program designed for Navy and Marine Corps medical planners as a tool that (1) models the patient flow from the point of injury through more definitive care, and (2) supports operations research and systems analysis studies, operational risk assessment...

Trace Retrieval as a Tool for Operational Support in Medical Process Management

Operational support assists users while process instances are being executed, by making predictions about the instance completion, or recommending suitable actions, resources or routing decisions, on the basis of the already completed process traces. Operational support can be particularly useful is the case of medical processes, where a given process instance execution may differ from the indi...

An audit tool for assessing the appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy

BACKGROUND To update appropriateness ratings for carotid endarterectomy using the best clinical evidence and to develop a tool to audit the procedure's use. METHODS A nine-member expert panel drawn from all the Canadian Specialist societies that are involved in the care of patients with carotid artery disease, used the RAND Appropriateness Methodology to rate scenarios where carotid endartere...