Medical Audit Concept

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• "My approach to this job is...one person at a time": Perceived discordance between population-level quality targets and patient-centred care.  Journal Articles
• A clinical audit of glottic cancer in Nova Scotia: A paradigm for effectiveness research  Journal Articles
• A method to audit and score implementation of knowledge translation (KT) interventions in large health regions – an observational pilot study using rectal cancer surgery in Ontario  Journal Articles
• A multifaceted strategy to reduce inappropriate use of frozen plasma transfusions in the intensive care unit  Journal Articles
• A prospective multi‐faceted interventional study of blood bank technologist screening of red blood cell transfusion orders: The START study  Journal Articles
• Access to Specialist Gastroenterology Care in Canada: Comparison of Wait Times and Consensus Targets  Journal Articles
• Access to Specialist Gastroenterology Care in Canada: The Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) Wait Times Program  Journal Articles
• Accuracy of Healthcare Worker Recall and Medical Record Review for Identifying Infectious Exposures to Hospitalized Patients  Journal Articles
• Adherence to Guidelines: A National Audit of the Management of Acute upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. The REASON Registry  Journal Articles
• Administration and Burden of Subcutaneous Immunotherapy for Allergic Rhinitis in U.S. and Canadian Clinical Practice  Journal Articles
• Advanced statistics: Understanding Medical Record Review (MRR) Studies  Journal Articles
• Aiming for Zero Preventable Deaths: Using Death Review to Improve Care and Reduce Harm  Journal Articles
• An Audit of Influenza Vaccination Status in Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease  Journal Articles
• An Audit of the Effect of Two Cord-Care Regimens on Bacterial Colonization in Newborn Infants  Journal Articles
• An investigation of maternal morbidity with identification of life-threatening 'near miss' episodes.  Journal Articles
• Appropriate Use of Antithrombotic Medication in Canadian Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation  Journal Articles
• Appropriateness of primary total hip and knee replacements in regions of Ontario with high and low utilization rates.  Journal Articles
• Audit and feedback versus alternative strategies: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  Journal Articles
• Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes  Journal Articles
• Audit of provincial IVIG Request Forms and efficacy documentation in four Ontario tertiary care centres  Journal Articles
• Audit of the clinical use of fresh-frozen plasma in Umbria: study design and results of the pilot phase.  Journal Articles
• Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review  Journal Articles
• Bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health: a qualitative study among decision-makers in the healthcare sector  Journal Articles
• Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in women presenting with external genital warts.  Journal Articles
• Changing Physicians' Behavior Using Combined Strategies and an Evidence-Based Protocol  Journal Articles
• Charting made easier and faster.  Journal Articles
• Coding accuracy of administrative drug claims in the Ontario Drug Benefit database.  Journal Articles
• Criteria Mapping: A Method of Quality Assurance  Journal Articles
• Development of a Tool to Measure Clinical Competence in Occupational Therapy: A Pilot Study?  Journal Articles
• Development of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Guideline and Implementation Strategy Based on the Knowledge-to-action Cycle  Journal Articles
• Do High Symptom Scores Trigger Clinical Actions? An Audit After Implementing Electronic Symptom Screening  Journal Articles
• Documented Use of Analgesics in the Emergency Department and upon Release of Patients with Extremity Fractures  Journal Articles
• Effect of Rheumatologist Education on Systematic Measurements and Treatment Decisions in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Metrix Study  Journal Articles
• Effect of preventive home visits by a nurse on the outcomes of frail elderly people in the community: a randomized controlled trial.  Conferences
• Effective Synthesized/preappraised Evidence Formats in Emergency Medicine and the Use of Supplemental Knowledge Translation Techniques  Conferences
• Evaluating appropriate red blood cell transfusions: a quality audit at 10 Ontario hospitals to determine the optimal measure for assessing appropriateness  Journal Articles
• Evidence-based care: 3. Measuring performance: how are we managing this problem? Evidence-Based Care Resource Group.  Journal Articles
• Fall Risk Care Processes in Nursing Home Facilities  Journal Articles
• Feedback GAP: pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care  Journal Articles
• Fielding standardized patients in primary care settings: lessons from a study using unannounced standardized patients to assess preventive care practices  Journal Articles
• Five-year results of the peer assessment program of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.  Journal Articles
• Goal attainment for multiple cardiovascular risk factors in community‐based clinical practice (a Canadian experience)  Journal Articles
• HOW ACCURATE IS A COMPUTERIZED SURGICAL AUDIT WHEN RESIDENT MEDICAL STAFF COLLECT THE DATA?  Journal Articles
• Heterogeneity in Trauma Registry Data Quality: Implications for Regional and National Performance Improvement in Trauma  Journal Articles
• Improving communication between hospital and community physicians. Feasibility study of a handwritten, faxed hospital discharge summary. Discharge Summary Study Group.  Journal Articles
• Improving patients' safety locally: changing clinician behaviour  Journal Articles
• Improving preventive practice. An educational intervention using chart audit.  Journal Articles
• Improving residents' clinical care and outcomes. Practice Audit Program of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University.  Journal Articles
• Insights about the process and impact of implementing nursing guidelines on delivery of care in hospitals and community settings  Journal Articles
• Is pretest probability assessment on emergency department patients with suspected venous thromboembolism documented before SimpliRED D-dimer testing?  Conferences
• Measurement of Physician Performance by Standardized Patients  Journal Articles
• Medical Record Review Conduction Model for Improving Interrater Reliability of Abstracting Medical-Related Information  Journal Articles
• Medical characteristics of the oldest old: retrospective chart review of patients aged 85+ in an academic primary care centre  Journal Articles
• Observer variation in an audit of charts of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.  Journal Articles
• On-Label Versus Off-Label Use of Recombinant Activated Factor VII: A Comprehensive Review of Use in Two Canadian Centers  Journal Articles
• Outcomes of Dosage Adjustments Used to Manage Antiretroviral Drug Interactions  Journal Articles
• Pain prevalence and pain treatments for residents in oregon nursing homes  Journal Articles
• Peer review as an aid to improving the completeness of psychiatric case notes  Journal Articles
• Perioperative multimodal optimisation in patients undergoing surgery for fractured neck of femur  Journal Articles
• Platelet transfusions in children: results of a randomized, prospective, crossover trial of plasma removal and a prospective audit of WBC reduction  Journal Articles
• Point-of-Care, Peer-Comparator Colonoscopy Practice Audit: The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Quality Program – Endoscopy  Journal Articles
• Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (Page) Program: A Novel Approach to Continuing Professional Development  Journal Articles
• Preferences of patients with heart failure for prognosis communication  Journal Articles
• Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis by Rheumatologists in a Latin-American City  Journal Articles
• Providing evidence‐based information to patients in general practice and pharmacies: what is the acceptability, usefulness and impact on drug use?  Journal Articles
• Quality indicators for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care.  Journal Articles
• Quality of inguinal hernia operative reports: room for improvement  Journal Articles
• Quality of medical care during and shortly after acute care restructuring in Newfoundland and Labrador  Journal Articles
• Regional needs assessment for emergency physician audit and feedback  Journal Articles
• Risk Stratification and Stroke Prevention Therapy Care Gaps in Canadian Atrial Fibrillation Patients (from the Co-ordinated National Network to Engage Physicians in the Care and Treatment of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Chart Audit)  Journal Articles
• Selective Opportunistic Screening for Hypercholesterolemia in Primary Care Practice  Journal Articles
• Short report: managing anticoagulation. Comparison of results at three primary care centres.  Journal Articles
• Smoldering rheumatoid arthritis: is the Canadian healthcare system neglecting a significant disease population?  Journal Articles
• Suboptimal Monitoring and Dosing of Unfractionated Heparin in Comparative Studies with Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin  Journal Articles
• Subtle differences in commercial heparins can have serious consequences for cardiopulmonary bypass patients: A randomized controlled trial  Journal Articles
• Sub‐segmental pulmonary embolism in three academic teaching hospitals: a review of management and outcomes  Journal Articles
• THE WEST MIDLANDS “SEVERE HYPERTENSIVE ILLNESS IN PREGNANCY” (SHIP) AUDIT  Journal Articles
• Testing an audit and feedback-based intervention to improve glycemic control after transfer to adult diabetes care: protocol for a quasi-experimental pre-post design with a control group  Journal Articles
• The 'Severe Hypertensive Illness in Pregnancy' (SHIP) audit: promoting quality care using a high risk monitoring chart and eclampsia treatment pack  Journal Articles
• The Misconception of Case-Control Studies in the Plastic Surgery Literature: A Literature Audit  Journal Articles
• The implementation of a surgeon-directed quality improvement strategy in breast cancer surgery  Journal Articles
• The prevalence of medical error related to end-of-life communication in Canadian hospitals: results of a multicentre observational study  Journal Articles
• The utility of autopsies in a pediatric emergency department  Journal Articles
• Thromboprophylaxis patterns and determinants in critically ill patients: a multicenter audit  Journal Articles
• Use of a maternal newborn audit and feedback system in Ontario: a collective case study  Journal Articles
• Use of brain natriuretic peptide to detect previously unknown left ventricular dysfunction in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease  Journal Articles
• Users' guide to the surgical literature. Self-audit and practice appraisal for surgeons.  Journal Articles
• Utilization of frozen plasma in Ontario: a provincewide audit reveals a high rate of inappropriate transfusions  Journal Articles
• Ventilator circuit and secretion management strategies: A Franco-Canadian survey  Journal Articles
• WITHDRAWN: Audit and feedback versus alternative strategies: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.  Journal Articles
• Who Needs a Palliative Care Consult?: The Hamilton Chart Audit Tool  Journal Articles
• Work-related mild-moderate traumatic brain injury and the construction industry  Journal Articles
• ‘Gearing Up’ to improve interprofessional collaboration in primary care: a systematic review and conceptual framework  Journal Articles