This study investigates how board networks and audit quality of listed firms are associated. Social network theory predicts that organizations benefit from both individual organizational network. However, a socially well-connected is highly likely to be busy thus, tends make lower level monitoring efforts. Accordingly, we expect with boards have greater demand for higher enhance their activitie...

BACKGROUND Clinical audit is a quality improvement process with the goal of continuously improving quality of patient care as assessed by explicit criteria. In human medicine clinical audit has become an integral and required component of the standard of care. In contrast, in veterinary medicine there appear to have been a limited number of clinical audits published, indicating that while clini...

The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) is an HMO-oriented Medicaid demonstration project serving approximately 170,000 persons throughout the State of Arizona. To assure that its members are receiving high quality care and because of the potentially adverse incentives of capitation, AHCCCS places particular emphasis on quality-of-care review. A key component of that review is ...