Medical Audit Methods
Mostrando 1-12 de 25 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Mental health in medical residents: relationship with personal, work-related, and sociodemographic variables
Objective: To examine association of sociodemographic characteristics, personality traits, social skills, and work variables with anxiety, depression, and alcohol dependence in medical residents. Methods: A total of 270 medical residents completed the following self-report instruments: sociodemographic and work questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire-4
Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.. Publicado em: 17/05/2016
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2. Audit and feedback : effects on professional obstetrical practice and health care outcomes / Auditoria e feedback : efeitos sobre a pratica obstetrica e os resultados da atenção a saude
Background: Audit and feedback is a widely used strategy to improve professional practice and can be defined as any summary of clinical performance of health care over a period of time, which may include recommendations for clinical action. Its effectiveness is still uncertain in Obstetrics. Objectives: to assess the effects of audit and feedback on the prac
Publicado em: 2008
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3. "Prática de medicina baseada em evidências em um centro de tratamento intensivo pediátrico" / The practice of evidence-based medicine in a pediatric intensive care unit
Objetivos: Estimar a concordância entre as práticas e as evidências disponíveis em uma unidade de terapia intensiva pediátrica. Métodos: Estudo retrospectivo de todos os pacientes internados durante 2001. As práticas foram classificadas em adequadas ou não-adequadas de acordo com recomendações. Esperava-se para as práticas recomendadas 90% de conc
Publicado em: 2003
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4. Assessing the work of medical audit advisory groups in promoting audit in general practice.
Objectives--To determine the role of medical audit advisory groups in audit activities in general practice. Design--Postal questionnaire survey. Subjects--All 104 advisory groups in England and Wales in 1994. Main measures--Monitoring audit: the methods used to classify audits, the methods used by the advisory group to collect data on audits from general pra
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5. Audit in general practice: students and practitioners learning together.
OBJECTIVES--To describe and evaluate the use of medical audit in general practice as an educational activity shared by undergraduate medical students and general practitioners. DESIGN--A descriptive study, evaluated by a questionnaire survey of all participating practices and by results of completed student projects on general practice audit topics during th
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6. Evaluation of medical audit.
OBJECTIVE--To review current knowledge of the effectiveness of medical audit programmes as a whole and of specific interventions within these programmes, as a means of changing clinical behaviour. CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF PUBLISHED REPORTS--Articles listed on Medline from 1985-92 with key words "quality assurance" or "medical audit", and "eval
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7. Implementation of quality assurance and medical audit: general practitioners' perceived obstacles and requirements.
BACKGROUND. The introduction of quality assurance and medical audit has been an important development in general practice. However, the introduction of such programmes does not necessarily mean they are implemented by general practitioners. AIM. A study was undertaken to describe the problems and requirements perceived by general practitioners in relation to
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8. Internal audit in a microbiology laboratory.
AIM--To set up a programme of internal laboratory audit in a medical microbiology laboratory. METHODS--A model of laboratory based process audit is described. Laboratory activities were examined in turn by specimen type. Standards were set using laboratory standard operating procedures; practice was observed using a purpose designed questionnaire and the dat
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9. Evolving Principles of Office Quality Assurance
The application of medical quality assurance principles to ambulatory patient care using the traditional methods of medical chart audit, process review, and physician education has yielded generally disappointing results in improving patient care and physician performance. Newer methods assist physicians by providing patient and medical reference data at the
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10. Certifying the cause of death: an audit of wording inaccuracies.
AIMS: To audit wording and formulation inaccuracies in certifying the cause of death. METHODS: Five hundred causes of death were analysed from the counterfoils of medical death certificates (Form 66). Wording and formulation inaccuracies were defined as terms contrary to the notes given to doctors in books on death certificates. RESULTS: One or more inaccura
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11. Auditing the Unified Medical Language System with Semantic Methods
Abstract Objective: The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) includes a Metathesaurus (Meta), which is a compilation of medical terms drawn from over 30 controlled vocabularies, and a Semantic Net, which contains the semantic types used to categorize Meta concepts and the semantic relations to connect them. Meta has
American Medical Informatics Association.
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12. Audit activity and quality of completed audit projects in primary care in Staffordshire.
OBJECTIVES--To survey audit activity in primary care and determine which practice factors are associated with completed audit; to survey the quality of completed audit projects. DESIGN--From April 1992 to June 1993 a team from the medical audit advisory group visited all general practices; a research assistant visited each practice to study the best audit pr