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Reduced exposure to vasopressors through permissive hypotension to reduce mortality in critically ill people aged 65 and over: the 65 RCT

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Improving the quality of nursing documentation at a residential care home: a clinical audit

open access: yesBMC 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Failures in cranioplasty - A clinical audit & review.

open access: yesJournal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Treatment strategies for new onset atrial fibrillation in patients treated on an intensive care unit: a systematic scoping review

open access: yesCritical Care, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Repeated analyses of national clinical audit reports demonstrate improvements in feedback methods

open access: yesImplementation 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical audit in the laboratory [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Pathology, 2009
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Audit and feedback to reduce unwarranted clinical variation at scale: a realist study of implementation strategy mechanisms

open access: yesImplementation 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Audit in clinical practice [PDF]

open access: yesIndian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, 2009
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Clinical Exercise Physiology Accreditation: An Audit of Existing Standards

open access: yes, 2023
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
core   +1 more source

KMR: a clinical audit [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2007
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
openaire   +2 more sources

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