BACKGROUND Improving the quality of health care requires a range of evidence-based activities. Audit and feedback is commonly used as a quality improvement tool in the UK National Health Service [NHS]. We set out to assess whether current guidance and systematic review evidence can sufficiently inform practical decisions about how to use audit and feedback to improve quality of care. METHODS ...

Audit is an important tool for quality improvement. The collection of data on clinical performance against evidence-based and clinically relevant standards, which are considered by clinicians to be realistic in routine practice, can usefully prompt reflective practice and the implementation of change. Evidence of participation in clinical audit is required to achieve intended learning outcomes ...

BACKGROUND Expanding clinical teaching opportunities is essential for securing a sustainable health workforce. Although Tasmanian general practitioners (GPs) are keen to provide learning opportunities for medical students, they have identified time pressures due to a need to meet patient service demand and a need for more guidance on effective clinical teaching, as factors impacting their abili...

BACKGROUND Evidence shows that clinical audit and feedback can significantly improve compliance with desired practice, but it is unclear when and how it is effective. Audit and feedback is likely to be more effective when feedback messages can influence barriers to behavior change, but barriers to change differ across individual health-care providers, stemming from differences in providers' ind...

AIMS To investigate the screening properties of the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) in the detection of alcohol-related problems among Nigerian university students. METHODS Eight hundred and ten students completed the AUDIT. A percentage of them were assessed for alcohol-related diagnosis with structured clinical interview. RESULTS The AUDIT at cut-off of 5 and above could...

OBJECTIVES This study measured the extent to which a systematic approach was used to select criteria for audit, and identified problems in using such an approach with potential solutions. DESIGN A questionnaire survey using the Audit Criteria Questionnaire (ACQ), created, piloted, and validated for the purpose. Possible ACQ scores ranged from 0 to 1, indicating how systematically the criteria...

this study investigates relation between accruals quality and auditor selection in the listed firms of tehran stock exchange (tse) during a five-year period from 2007 to 2011.  using correlation method and logistic regression technique, the results of this study indicate that client size, management change and accruals quality impact on selection of the big audit firms.  the results of this res...

the study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. to achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in jordan based on the simple random sampling method. the study first hypothesis is...

potentially missed because of normal auditory brain stem responses. Acoustic reflexes have the advantages of being cheap, easy to perform, and usually immediately available. Despite their poor specificity their routine use would mean that about a third of patients could be reassured at their initial clinic visit and not require further investigation. However, the criteria used by us for normali...