One of the easiest ways to start improving quality in a hospital is through clinical audit. Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes. It does this through a systematic process of review or evaluation against clearly defined criteria, followed by the implementation of change. Clinical audit is something that doctors, nurses, optometrists and...

This study examines the effect of audit firm size, period, and rotation on quality. The data come from annual reports infrastructure, utilities transportation companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) 2016 to 2020. sampling method used is purposive sampling. A sample 267 was obtained based method. analysis technique logistic regression with SPSS software. study's results confirm agency th...

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of variations in random audit rates and switching to a conditional audit regime on the quantity and qualit...

Good nursing handover is central to the delivery of high-quality care. However, there are no national tools available to audit and benchmark practice standards in this area. Following a review of the literature, evidence-based best practice standards were identified and used by the author to audit nursing handover in one acute NHS trust in the UK. Results of the audit were used to assure qualit...

OBJECTIVES To explore and describe the views on clinical audit of healthcare purchasers and providers, and in particular the interaction between them, and hence to help the future development of an appropriate interaction between purchasers and providers. DESIGN Semistructured interviews. SETTING Four purchaser and provider pairings in the former Northern Region of the National Health Servi...

One of the easiest ways to start improving quality in a hospital is through clinical audit. Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes. It does this through a systematic process of review or evaluation against clearly defined criteria, followed by the implementation of change. Clinical audit is something that doctors, nurses, optometrists and...

The objective of this long term study will be to determine factors that may influence the IT audit process and develop a model that can be used to improve process quality. Using focus groups of internal auditors at one large, health care products and services company we identify factors rated as critical by one or more of these groups and develop a first draft of a quality model. This model cou...

Introduction During the past decade, demands for eVective quality assessment in primary health care have increased considerably. “The third revolution of medical care” has seen a move towards more rigorous assessment of clinical interventions and increasing calls for more accountability. Although most agree that quality improvement is important there are many views about the best approach to qu...