Audit of care for epileptics in a general practice.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Nursing Audit Tool

Background: Better healthcare outcomes in health services are obtainable from frequently observing ongoing healthcare activities, gathering data, and assessing outcomes. Objectives: This study aimed to establish the basic principles of nursing care standards and practices in wards, develop a nursing audit tool for periodically monitoring and controlling o...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Audit of Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Rates: A Canadian Retrospective Cross-Sectional Database Review

Background: Minimally invasive hysterectomy is generally preferable to abdominal hysterectomy. The technicity index (TI) is the proportion of hysterectomies performed by minimally invasive surgery. Many centers globally have started to audit local TI as a quality indicator, but only a handful have published their results to help define international standards of care. <st...

A survey of audit activity in general practice.

BACKGROUND Since 1991, all general practices have been encouraged to undertake clinical audit. Audit groups report that participation is high, and some local surveys have been undertaken, but no detailed national survey has been reported. AIM To determine audit activities in general practices and the perceptions of general practitioners (GPs) regarding the future of clinical audit in primary ...

Models of clinical reasoning with a focus on general practice: a critical review

Introduction: Diagnosis lies at the heart of general practice.Every day general practitioners (GPs) visit patients with awide variety of complaints and concerns, with often minor butsometimes serious symptoms. General practice has many featureswhich differentiate it from specialty care setting, but during thelast four decades little attention was paid to clinical reasoningin general practice. T...