OBJECTIVES Severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are one of the major causes of maternal mortality globally. Reducing maternal morbidity and mortality demands optimizing quality of care. Criteria-based audits are a tool to define, assess and improve quality of care. The aim of this study was to determine applicability of a criteria-based audit to assess quality of care delivered to women with seve...

We use experimental data from a résumé audit to estimate the impact of particular college majors and internship experience on employment prospects. Despite applying exclusively to business-related job openings, we find no evidence that business degrees improve employment prospects. By contrast, internship experience increases the interview rate by 14 percent. The returns to internship experienc...

We take the position that audit mechanisms are essential for privacy protection in healthcare environments. Although audits are used in practice and commercial tools that provide assistance for audits are emerging, we currently lack rigorous models and definitions of properties that can guide the design of appropriate audit mechanisms. We report on our recent result that presents a principled l...

Third party audits of product quality — such as consumer product reviews, financial audits, and court decisions — are common. Prior economic analysis finds that more accurate assessments improve welfare, either by facilitating better consumer choices or encouraging producers to improve quality. This paper shows that, when auditors have binding capacity constraints, information available to cons...

OBJECTIVES To review current practice at the John Connolly Wing ECT clinic and to explore compliance with NICE ECT guidance. Standards used included the ECT TA59 guidelines of 2003 with the updated depression guidance CG90 of 2009. To recommend a programme of action to the Trust which would ensure that clinical practice and service delivery within the Trust complies with NICE guidance. METHOD...