Problem: The first East Anglian audit of hip fracture was conducted in eight hospitals during 1992. There were significant differences between hospitals in 90-day mortality, development of pressure sores, median lengths of hospital stay, and in most other process measures. Only about half the survivors recovered their pre-fracture physical function. A marked decrease in physical function (for 3...

Prior research has estimated piece-meal the determinants of audit fees, non-audit fees and abnormal accruals. Intuition, informal analysis, and a variety of theories suggest that audit fees, non-audit fees, and abnormal accruals are jointly determined. We address this endogeneity issue by modeling the confluence of audit fees, fees for non-audit services and abnormal accruals in a system of sim...

Audits are part of the continuous quality improvement process and one of the key elements of clinical governance. Laboratory-based clinical audits are concerned primarily with the everyday aspects of laboratory services and are a means of providing feedback to the users of the laboratory and its staff. They involve measuring the performance of laboratory services against established standards. ...

Firstly, a design of log audit system was raised based on PHP in the main mainstream operating systems and network environment; then, the “client/server” framework was surveyed while the main module of the system was described. Implementation details of key technology were provided with code. Lastly, the trend perspective of the log audit system was also presented.

background : chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting is an added distress to patients burdened by the illness. in an effort to tackle the emetogenic potential of the agents, guidelines have been proposed to maintain uniformity in prescription and improvement in patient tolerance; but their utility and practice is not consistent. the aim of this clinical audit was to assess the antiemetic.pract...

Audit sequences have been used effectively to study process behaviors and build host-based intrusion detection models. Most sequencebased techniques make use of a pre-defined window size for scanning the sequences to model process behavior. In this paper, we propose two methods for extracting variable length patterns from audit sequences that avoid the necessity of such a pre-determined paramet...

PROBLEM The first East Anglian audit of hip fracture was conducted in eight hospitals during 1992. There were significant differences between hospitals in 90-day mortality, development of pressure sores, median lengths of hospital stay, and in most other process measures. Only about half the survivors recovered their pre-fracture physical function. A marked decrease in physical function (for 31...

BACKGROUND Perinatal (mortality) audit can be considered to be a way to improve the careprocess for all pregnant women and their newborns by creating an opportunity to learn from unwanted events in the care process. In unit-based perinatal audit, the caregivers involved in cases that result in mortality are usually part of the audit group. This makes such an audit a delicate matter. METHODS T...