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National clinical audit for hospitalised exacerbations of COPD
ERJ Open Research, 2020 Introduction Exacerbations of COPD requiring hospital admission are burdensome to patients and health services. Audit enables benchmarking performance between units and against national standards, and supports quality improvement.
John R. Hurst +5 more
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Veterinary Sciences, 2018 Clinical audit is a quality improvement tool used to assess and improve the clinical services provided to patients. This is the first study to investigate the extent to which clinical audit is understood and utilised in farm animal veterinary practice. A
Katie Waine +4 more
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Changing Trends in Use of Laparoscopy: A Clinical Audit [PDF]
Minimally Invasive Surgery, 2014 Aim. To find out the changing trends in indications for use of laparoscopy for diagnostic or operative procedures in gynaecology. Methods. This was a clinical audit of 417 women who underwent laparoscopic procedures over a period of 8 years from January ...
Ritu Khatuja +5 more
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How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries?, 2021 Audit literally means ‘official inspection of an organization’s data or finances, typically by an independent body’. While most audits relate to financial matters, medical audits are used by health care professionals to evaluate, estimate, and improve ...
S. Nundy, A. Kakar, Z. Bhutta
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Improving the quality of nursing documentation at a residential care home: a clinical audit
BMC Nursing, 2020 Background Quality in nursing documentation holds promise to increase patient safety and quality of care. While high-quality nursing documentation implies a comprehensive documentation of the nursing process, nursing records do not always adhere to these
Preben Søvik Moldskred +2 more
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Repeated analyses of national clinical audit reports demonstrate improvements in feedback methods
Implementation Science Communications, 2020 There is growing interest in the impact of national clinical audit programmes on the quality of healthcare. There is also an evolving evidence-base for enhancing the design and delivery of audit and feedback.
T. Khan +6 more
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Implementation Science, 2023 Background Unwarranted clinical variation in hospital care includes the underuse, overuse, or misuse of services. Audit and feedback is a common strategy to reduce unwarranted variation, but its effectiveness varies widely across contexts.
Mitchell N. Sarkies +11 more
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Cyberthreats on Implantable Medical Devices
Journal of Information Security and Cybercrimes Research, 2021 The significant and rapid technological development in the field of medical care, and Implanted Medical Device, clearly lead to improve the quality of care and effectiveness of treatment for numerous diseases that were previously difficult to be ...
Mohammed N. A. Sabra
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Using audit and feedback to increase clinician adherence to clinical practice guidelines in brain injury rehabilitation: v [PDF]
, 2019 ObjectiveThis study evaluated whether frequent (fortnightly) audit and feedback cycles over a sustained period of time (>12 months) increased clinician adherence to recommended guidelines in acquired brain injury rehabilitation.DesignA before and after ...
Cameron, Ian D. +7 more
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A framework for extending trial design to facilitate missing data sensitivity analyses
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020 Background Missing data are an inevitable challenge in Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), particularly those with Patient Reported Outcome Measures.
Alexina J. Mason +5 more
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