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Background: Vasopressors are administered to critical care patients to avoid hypotension, which is associated with myocardial injury, kidney injury and death.
Paul R Mouncey +17 more
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Improving the quality of nursing documentation at a residential care home: a clinical audit
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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Failures in cranioplasty - A clinical audit & review.
Introduction Cranioplasty, like any other surgical procedure also comes with risk of complications and failure. Failure of cranioplasty may be early or delayed and further can be attributed to the surgical procedure itself or to the reconstruction ...
N. Sahoo +3 more
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Background New-onset atrial fibrillation (NOAF) in patients treated on an intensive care unit (ICU) is common and associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Laura Drikite +11 more
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Repeated analyses of national clinical audit reports demonstrate improvements in feedback methods
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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Clinical audit in the laboratory [PDF]
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.
R T, Erasmus, A E, Zemlin
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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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Audit in clinical practice [PDF]
Audit dates back to as early as 1750 BC when king Hammurabi of Babylon instigated audit for clinicians with regard to outcome. Clinical audit is a way of fi nding out whether we are doing what we should be doing. It also verifi es whether we are applying the best practice.An audit cycle involves setting-up of standards, measuring current practice ...
Prince Cheriyan, Modayil +2 more
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Clinical Exercise Physiology Accreditation: An Audit of Existing Standards
Background: Health professions such as clinical exercise physiology are founded on a set of standards that outline base level knowledge, skills, and competencies to define the roles and scope of practice of the profession.
Nathan E. Reeves +5 more
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In the current financial situation, where trusts receive finance based on payment by results, accurate record keeping is very important. Many trusts have lost funding despite having a good patient load because of an inability to produce appropriate data. Information on the performance of a trust is largely obtained from data produced by clinical coding,
K K, Tewary +2 more
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