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Clinical Audit [PDF]

, 2021
AbstractAudit 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 the care of their patients in an organized way. These can be internal or external.
Samiran Nundy, Atul Kakar, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta   +2 more
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Ensuring comparisons of health-care providers are fair: development and validation of risk prediction models for critically ill patients

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015
Background: National clinical audit has a key role in ensuring quality in health care. When comparing outcomes between providers, it is essential to take the differing case mix of patients into account to make fair comparisons.
David A Harrison, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, Jason Shahin, Kathryn M Rowan   +3 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, Richard D. Grieve, Alvin Richards-Belle, Paul R. Mouncey, David A. Harrison, James R. Carpenter   +5 more
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Family-Reported Experiences Evaluation (FREE) study: a mixed-methods study to evaluate families’ satisfaction with adult critical care services in the NHS

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015
Background: To improve care it is necessary to feed back experiences of those receiving care. Of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), approximately one-quarter die, and few survivors recollect their experiences, so family members have a ...
Stephen E Wright, Emma Walmsley, Sheila E Harvey, Emily Robinson, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, David A Harrison, Ruth R Canter, Elaine McColl, Annette Richardson, Michael Richardson, Lisa Hinton, Daren K Heyland, Kathryn M Rowan   +12 more
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Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and outcomes for new-onset atrial fibrillation in ICU patients: the CAFE scoping review and database analyses

Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: New-onset atrial fibrillation occurs in around 10% of adults treated in an intensive care unit. New-onset atrial fibrillation may lead to cardiovascular instability and thromboembolism, and has been independently associated with increased ...
Jonathan Bedford, Laura Drikite, Mark Corbett, James Doidge, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, Alistair Johnson, Kim Rajappan, Paul Mouncey, David Harrison, Duncan Young, Kathryn Rowan, Peter Watkinson   +11 more
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Assessing the Feasibility of Retrospective and Prospective Clinical Audit in Farm Animal Veterinary Practice

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
As a quality improvement tool, clinical audit has been extensively described in the medical literature. There is scant literature on the use of clinical audit in the farm animal veterinary setting.
Katie Waine, Constance White, Rachel S. Dean, Chris Hudson, Jonathan N. Huxley, Marnie L. Brennan   +5 more
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Protocolised Management In Sepsis (ProMISe): a multicentre randomised controlled trial of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of early, goal-directed, protocolised resuscitation for emerging septic shock

Health Technology Assessment, 2015
Background: Early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) is recommended in international guidance for the resuscitation of patients presenting with early septic shock.
Paul R Mouncey, Tiffany M Osborn, G Sarah Power, David A Harrison, M Zia Sadique, Richard D Grieve, Rahi Jahan, Jermaine CK Tan, Sheila E Harvey, Derek Bell, Julian F Bion, Timothy J Coats, Mervyn Singer, J Duncan Young, Kathryn M Rowan   +14 more
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Clinical audit in European radiology: current status and recommendations for improvement endorsed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR)

Insights into Imaging, 2023
Clinical audit is an important quality improvement activity and has significant benefits for patients in terms of enhanced care, safety, experience and outcomes.
David C. Howlett, Paulette Kumi, Roman Kloeckner, Nuria Bargallo, Bettina Baessler, Minerva Becker, Steve Ebdon-Jackson, Alexandra Karoussou-Schreiner, Christian Loewe, Marta Sans Merce, Marta Serrallonga-Mercader, Vasilis Syrgiamiotis, European Society of Radiology   +12 more
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First-line support for assistance in breathing in children: statistical and health economic analysis plan for the FIRST-ABC trial

Trials, 2020
Background The FIRST-ABC trial comprises of two pragmatic, multicentre, parallel groups, non-inferiority randomised clinical trials designed to evaluate the clinical non-inferiority of first-line use of high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) to continuous ...
Izabella Orzechowska, M. Zia Sadique, Karen Thomas, Peter Davis, Kevin P. Morris, Paul R. Mouncey, Mark J. Peters, Alvin Richards-Belle, Lyvonne N. Tume, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, David A. Harrison   +10 more
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Audit of medical records keeping at a Nigerian geriatric clinic

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND: A medical record also known as health chart is the written health information about a patient or clients and is always opened whenever a patient or client visits a health facility.
Dabota Yvonne Buowari
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