this study aims at investigating the impacts of mandatory audit firm rotation (mafr) on audit fees and audit market compeition among firms listed on tehran stock exchange (tse). since 2007 firms listed on tse are not allowed to use services of any single audit firm for more than 4 consecutive years. we tested our hypotheses using multivariate regression analysis and mean comparison test. our sa...

Audits and quality improvement projects are vital aspects of clinical governance and continual service improvement in medicine. In this article we describe the process of clinical audit and quality improvement project. Guidance is also provided on how to design an effective audit and bypass barriers encountered during the process.

Sir, Prescription writing is one of the most important and basic skills that a doctor needs. Specifi c training and supervision in prescription should be emphasized during undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to minimize related errors.[1] These prescription errors may lead to adverse drug events. The study done to assess adverse drug events by Bates et al. found 28% of adverse drug events t...

BACKGROUND Cost effectiveness analysis is an established technique for evaluation of delivery of health care, but its use to evaluate clinical audit is rarely reported. Thrombolysis for suspected acute myocardial infarction is a commonly used therapy of established effectiveness and an appropriate subject for audit in many healthcare settings. OBJECTIVE To measure the cost effectiveness of au...

OBJECTIVES To describe alcohol drinking patterns among participants in Katutura, Namibia, and to evaluate brief versions of the AUDIT against the full AUDIT to determine their effectiveness in detecting harmful drinking. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in four constituencies and 639 participants, 18 years or older, completed a sociodemographic survey and the AUDIT. The effectiv...

Background—Cost eVectiveness analysis is an established technique for evaluation of delivery of health care, but its use to evaluate clinical audit is rarely reported. Thrombolysis for suspected acute myocardial infarction is a commonly used therapy of established eVectiveness and an appropriate subject for audit in many healthcare settings. Objective—To measure the cost eVectiveness of audit o...

the results of audit provide feedback about the extent of human resources management participation in the realization of the strategic objectives of organization for management. human resource management audit indicates to what extent human resources management performance is in the direction of productivity improvement. the aim of this article is study of different amount of organizational pro...

BACKGROUND The need to base clinical interventions on valid findings of research has been a dominant theme in clinical practice during the last quarter of a century. However, there is much evidence showing that research evidence reaches everyday practice slowly. Solutions to this problem include evidence-based practice and implementation by guidelines and audit. Studies of these methods have in...

Access to patients and their records for non-clinical purposes has recently come under scrutiny. Research ethics committees control access for research purposes, but audit is explicitly excluded from their remit. Although there is consensus that locally organised audits do not need ethical approval, the status of larger scale audits designed to influence broader practice remains unclear; some j...