BACKGROUND South Asia is experiencing a dismal state of maternal and newborn health (MNH) as the region has been falling behind in reducing the levels of maternal and neonatal mortality. Most of the efforts are focused on enhancing coverage of MNH services; however, quality remains a serious concern if the region is to achieve expected outcomes in terms of standardised MNH services within healt...

BACKGROUND In Australia, in an environment undergoing rapidly changing requirements for health services, there is an urgent need for future practitioners to be knowledgeable, skilful and self-motivated in ensuring the quality and safety of their practice. Postgraduate medical education and vocational programs have responded by incorporating training in quality improvement into continuing profes...

Please cite this article in press as: Fa Osteopathic Medicine (2013), http:// Abstract Healthcare delivery in the 21st Century is rapidly changing. The combination of political pressures and ensuing infrastructure changes across health delivery models can sometimes make the patient feel a neglected, although vital part of the equation. Putting the patient at the heart of high quality care focus...

a Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES/CIBER-ISCIII), Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain c Servicio de Neumología, Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red...

Until now, medical practice in the United Kingdom has, unlike in medical research, largely resisted ethics committee scrutiny of clinical audit. I support this position. On what grounds do I do so? Are there suYcient diVerences between medical research and medical audit to reliably sustain this thesis? I shall argue that research ethics committees may be operating under philosophical constraint...

I read with interest the special article entitled ‘Consultation on the Libyan Health Systems: towards patient centred services’ (1). In my opinion, the consultation would be better conducted as a clinical audit, which has been shown to be an effective method to improve the quality of health services (2, 3). Making recommendations for good practice before a thorough review of current services ha...

OBJECTIVES To follow-up on the process of implementing clinical audits of obstetric cases in Morocco as recommended by the Ministry of Health (2001) and to explore both the barriers to and factors facilitating sustainability of clinical audits. METHOD Questionnaires were sent to heads of all 61 Moroccan health provinces (response rate 69%) to ask if their maternity units had implemented clini...

In July 2001, the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) introduced furosemide for use by paramedics to treat pulmonary edema secondary to left ventricular failure (LVF). In 2002, a clinical audit identified that paramedics had difficulty distinguishing pulmonary edema secondary to LVF from other conditions, and also had issues with drug administration records. As a result, LAS training packa...