Pam Cooper, David Gray, Fiona Russell and Sandra Stringfellow are Clinical Nurse Specialists; John Timmons, Melvyn Bertram, Kristine Duguid, Gail Pirie and Evelyn Quinn are Tissue Viability Nurses, all at the Department of Tissue Viability, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen Wound care practice can be difficult to monitor due to the complex nature of wounds, the patients, the variety of dressings, and the ...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate tools for the audit of spasticity management with botulinum toxin. DESIGN Audit tools to assess the organisation of services and process of care were developed with a consensus process. The tools were piloted across 8 services using a retrospective case note audit. Inter-rater reliability was assessed, using percentage agreement and kappa scores. Clinicians i...

in this study, the effect of audit quality on agency costs and information asymmetry has been examined. among the accepted companies 99 ones in tehran stock exchange were selected for statistical samples from 1385 to 1392 in order to attain the research purposes. to measure the audit quality, it has been used the observable variables such as the percentage of institutional investors, the type o...

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...

A double-key data entry/verify system for pharmaceutical clinical trials data was previously developed using SAS/AF® and SAS Component Language (SCL) software. The application has operated successfully for several years. Now, new federal regulations require that an audit trail be maintained on the creation and modification of all electronic records involved in clinical trials research. Thus, an...

Numbers of patients undergoing coronary angiography and angioplasty procedures have increased in England due to targets within the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. Little evidence is available regarding optimal bed-rest duration for patients post-femoral arterial sheath removal following these procedures. Through literature review and clinical benchmarking, we aimed to ide...

PURPOSE Our purpose was to test a communication tool used in a multidisciplinary setting to more effectively achieve the recommended goals for glucose, blood pressure, lipids, and prophylactic aspirin use in a Native American population with type 2 diabetes. METHODS One hundred randomly selected patients were included in this observational, pre-intervention, post-intervention study design. Th...

BACKGROUND Clinical audits have emerged as a potential tool to summarize the clinical performance of healthcare over a specified period of time. However, the effectiveness of audit and feedback has shown inconsistent results and the impact of audit and feedback on clinical performance has not been evaluated for COPD exacerbations. In the present study, we analyzed the results of two consecutive...

This is an eGISE network paper. It is motivated by a concern about the extent to which trust issues inhibit a citizen’s take-up of online public sector services or engagement with public decision and policy making. A citizen’s decision to use online systems is influenced by their willingness to trust the environment and agency involved. This project addresses one aspect of individual “trust” de...