OBJECTIVE To introduce clinical audit into a referral hospital in Ethiopia, and whether clinical standards can be improved as a result. BACKGROUND Clinical audit is a method of checking that patient care is delivered to the highest possible level by health care professionals. Practice is measured against agreed guidelines, and is then adjusted to meet the required standard. METHODS Audit wa...

Accepted 6 May 1997 Summary The British Geriatrics Society has described 16 training objectives for senior house officers (SHOs) in geriatric medicine. We have developed these into an audit standard, and in a controlled trial we consider the effectiveness of audit as a means of monitoring and improving SHO training. SHOs from three hospitals were sent a questionnaire asking about the adequacy o...

A postal survey of staff (doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapy professionals, senior managers and clinical audit staff) was conducted in three English hospital and community healthcare providers. The aim was to assess staff perceptions of the impact of local clinical audit programmes and to investigate differences between staff groups. The questionnaire contained a 24 item opinio...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of ectopic pregnancy in cases presented to the Woman's Health Hospital (WHH) in Assuit University, and to perform clinical audit on strategies for management of ectopic pregnancy in the WHH. METHODS This descriptive hospital based study was conducted at the Woman's Health Hospital (WHH) of Assuit University (Egypt). There were ...

To determine the pattern and presentations of ameloblastoma in patients reporting to Armed Forces Institute of Dentistry (AFID), a descriptive study was undertaken from June 2002 to June 2009. A total number of 34 Ameloblastoma patients who were treated at the institute were analyzed. Their mode of presentation, site involved, various age groups and gender distributions, histological patterns, ...

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. ...

Background “National guideline for assessment, treatment and social rehabilitation of persons with concurrent substance use disorders and mental disorders”, launched March 2012, is aimed at a wide range of health services. It holds a separate chapter on implementation. The National Centre for Dual Diagnosis was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to develop a plan for implementa...