Audit Report
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25. Summative assessment of vocational trainees: results of a 3-year study.
BACKGROUND: Summative assessment of general practice trainees will be introduced across the UK for trainees completing vocational training after 1 September 1996. AIMS: A study was set up to assess the reliability of the consulting skills assessment which will be used to develop audit and factual knowledge testing as summative assessment tools and to determi
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26. Prospective audit of mucosal biopsy specimens of the gastrointestinal tract.
AIMS--To determine why mucosal biopsy specimens of the gastrointestinal tract were taken and whether they were justified on clinical or pathological grounds. METHODS--A prospective audit of 190 consecutive biopsy specimens received in a university hospital histology department over six weeks. RESULTS--The 31 separate presenting symptoms included diarrhoea (3
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27. A survey of general practitioners' views on autopsy reports.
AIMS: To study the views of general practitioners on the quality and utility of autopsy reports, and on autopsies in general. METHODS: For a period of six months, a questionnaire was enclosed with each autopsy report sent to a general practitioner from the mortuary at Manchester Royal Infirmary. RESULTS: Most (93.3%) general practitioners found the autopsy r
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28. Patient satisfaction: an indicator of quality in disablement services centres.
OBJECTIVES--To develop a patient satisfaction system for disablement services centres and to report on how the initial findings have been used in audit to improve their quality of care and services. DESIGN--Interview survey of randomly selected users attending in three centres: Birmingham (centre X), Oxford (centre Y), and Cambridge (centre Z) to establish c
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29. The effect of four interventions on the informational content of histopathology reports of resected colorectal carcinomas.
AIM: To investigate the effect of different interventions on the inclusion of data items in the histopathology reports of resected colorectal carcinomas. STUDY POPULATION: 272 routine histopathology reports on colorectal carcinomas from the department of histopathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. METHODS: The presence or absence of 10 specific da
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30. Laboratory turnround time: closing the loop.
AIMS--To institute recommendations from a laboratory turnround time study; to evaluate audit methods; and to quantify improvements achieved. METHODS--Changes to result report distribution and specimen delivery were affected by posting results directly from the laboratory followed by the introduction of a twice daily courier service. Improvements were evaluat
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31. Factors predicting cases with unexpected clinical findings at necropsy.
AIMS/BACKGROUND: A major medical role for postmortem examinations is the detection of clinically unexpected disease processes contributing to death. The aim of the present study was to determine whether simple clinical parameters can predict the presence of important unanticipated findings at necropsy. METHODS: Prospective audit of adult necropsies carried o
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32. Method for auditing turnround time in histopathology related to user requirements.
Histopathology audit schemes have concentrated on the accuracy of diagnosis or the standard of technical work. The most appropriate measure of specimen report time for histopathology was assessed. The simplest method is to calculate the mean or median number of days from receipt of specimens to issue of report, but this takes no account of clinical practice.
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33. Royal College of Pathologists' accreditation pilot study: a year later. The College Audit Steering Committee.
Twenty one heads of departments who participated in the Royal College of Pathologists' pilot study of laboratory accreditation were questioned a year after the event to discover if the process had produced any lasting effect. All but one responded. Eighteen (90%) felt that there had been lasting and tangible benefit from their inspection. Of 10 departments w
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34. Provision of services for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Fourth report of a Joint Cardiology Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
The principal conclusions of the fourth report of the Joint Cardiology Committee are: 1 Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of death and morbidity in the population and of utilisation of medical services. 2 Reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease is feasible, and better co-ordination is required of strategies most likely to be effective. 3 P
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35. Can histopathologists diagnose bronchopneumonia?
OBJECTIVES--To assess histopathologists' ability to accurately diagnose bronchopneumonia, both on naked eye and microscopic examination; to extrapolate from the error rate to determine whether the role of the necropsy in monitoring the epidemiology of clinical error might be compromised. METHODS--Review of archival histological sections and necropsy reports
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36. Roll Back Malaria? The scarcity of international aid for malaria control
The WHO announced the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) movement in 1998, with the goal of halving malaria deaths by 2010, and halving again by 2015. It is widely agreed that reaching this goal requires a major increase in international aid funding for malaria control, to a budget of perhaps $1.5 – $2.5 billion annually. To ascertain whether progress is being made,
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