... or the time span from the time of injury to the definitive surgical procedure. It was our belief that the analyses of these two audits would give some measure of the efficacy of the emergency infrastructure in our region for the management of emergency plastic surgical cases. Two distinct...

...S. Clark; M. Greenwood Describes how the implementation of thromboembolic prophylaxis in patients undergoing oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures was audited. In 1997, four oral and maxillofacial units were asked about their practice of prophylaxis for thromboembolic disease (TED). Proformas...

... to the investigation. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Monitoring Health care Procedures Regulations Approximately 10‐33 per cent of the population seek medical advice at some point about classic reflux symptoms of heartburn, retrosternal pain and regurgitation (Jones, 1989; Richter, 1992). Not all need...

... contained and clinical governance enhanced. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Health care Procedures Documentation When selecting a client or patient group in the acute setting it is simplest to use diagnostic or procedural groupings (e.g. myocardial infarction or prostatectomy). In less...