Internal and external auditors play an increasingly important role for building up trust and confidence in today’s economic cycle. To ensure effective and efficient audits, current audit standards demand from auditors to gain an indepth understanding of the clients’ business processes. In this context, seminal research results indicate that type and number of documentation formats have a signif...

The use of standardized nursing languages varies between and even within different European countries. Standardization of a nursing language is a demanding process which requires substantial methodological and technological knowledge as well as cultural experience in terminology development work. A survey was carried out to describe the current state of art of the use of models, standards and s...

In an attempt to improve quality of care for patients admitted to our medical service we have implemented the use of pathways. These are printed standards of care and a mechanism for daily multidisciplinary documentation. The goals of our pathways are to: improve quality using printed standards of care; improve documentation of the care delivered; improve communication about daily goals between...

BACKGROUND Medical photography is used clinically for patient evaluation, treatment decisions, and scientific documentation. Although standards for medical photography exist in many branches of medicine, we have not encountered such criteria in publications in the area of orthopedics. PURPOSE This study aims to (1) assess the quality of medical images used in an orthopedic publication and (2)...

abstract objective: homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (homa-ir) is a simple and practical method for estimation of insulin resistance (ir), but a reliable reference interval (ri) of homa-ir is needed to deduce the threshold level to define ir. this ri has been controversial in different populations and even more divergent when considering factors like age, gender and body mass ...

OBJECTIVE To understand the nature of emerging electronic documentation practices, disconnects between documentation workflows and computing systems designed to support them, and ways to improve the design of electronic documentation systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS Time-and-motion study of resident physicians' note-writing practices using a commercial electronic health record system that inclu...