background it is believed that healthcare staff play an important role in minimizing complications related to urethral catheterization. the purpose of this study was to determine whether or not healthcare staff complied with the standards for urethral catheterization.   methods this study was conducted in imam reza teaching hospital, tabriz, iran, from july to september 2013. a total of 109 cat...

advances and technical standards in neurosurgery vol 38 advances and technical standards in neurosurgery advances in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery head injuries tumors of the crebellar region advances in neurosurgery towards minimally invasive neurosurgery 1st asian congreB of stereotactic functional and computeraBisted neurosurgery singapore december 1994 abstracts Petronas Technica...

Formal methods tools can be used to detect and prevent errors so researchers assume that industry will use them. We are often frustrated when we see industrial projects where tools could have been used to detect or prevent errors in the final product. Researchers often fail to realize that there is a significant gap between aa potentially useful tool and its use in a standards compliant, commer...

BACKGROUND The Joint Commission standards on pain management address the documentation of assessment and reassessment. Yet, little has been published to describe when and how nurses perform and communicate reassessment of pain. In 2005, the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (UWHC) was inconsistently reassessing pain after interventions, and documented reassessments were primarily confi...

Background Documentation of clinical data in the pre-hospital emergency care is important for research purposes. Collecting complete patient level data can be challenging as time is limited and patient management must have priority. In the current study we aimed to examine the ability of Scandinavian pre-hospital physicians to record of fourteen clinical variables during pre-hospital trauma mis...

One of the most serious bottlenecks in the scientific workflows of biodiversity sciences is the need to integrate data from different sources, software applications, and services for analysis, visualisation and publication. For more than a quarter of a century the TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards organisation has a central role in defining and promoting data standards and protocols suppo...

Hypothesis / aims of study Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcome. The audit cycle consists of systematic review of care against explicit criteria, implementation of change and finally,a re-audit to complete the audit cycle. TVT was introduced in our institute in 2001. In 2003, The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) published...

It is a well-known fact that software documentation is, in practice, poor, incomplete and flexible. Projects may wish to add, change, remove or ignore any part of any document. Some may also believe that aspects of one document would sit better in another. If this is the case then users of this document and these templates are encouraged to change them to fit their needs. The paper describes a ...