In a tiered approach three aspects of these "non-guideline" studies are assessed: the documentation of the study (reliability), the quality of the study design (adequacy) and the scope of examination (validity).
In this systematic review, our focus is more specifically on assessing the implementation and documentation of MI in both published randomised control trials and observational studies, in addition to the reporting of missing data when using MI.
Copies of discharge summaries (with person-identifiable information deleted) were collected so that community-based health-care personnel could be asked to assess the written documentation and evaluate the overall quality of the current discharge process.
Assessing the accuracy of resident documentation is a difficult task [ 18, 19].
The resulting description of characteristics and content necessary for quality notes provides a research-based foundation for assessing the quality of clinical documentation in outpatient health care settings.
Real-time audit with feedback is an effective tool in assessing the standards of radiotherapy documentation in our department, and also probably contributed to the high level of attentiveness.
In this Clinical Ethics Centre initiative, we sought to determine areas needing improvement in our processes of communication by assessing the quality of intensivists' documentation of the goals of care as discussed in their meetings with substitute decision-makers.
In my opinion, we did not merely delimit the object of development during this deliberation-instead, at the same time, there occurred a transfer of the development object from learning the techniques of observation and documentation to assessing the impacts of work done by an educator and developing their competence and their skills of observation, documentation and assessment.
In this paper, we present an effective and automated approach for assessing the quality of in-line documentation using a set of heuristics, targeting both the quality of language and consistency between the source code and its comments.
A total of 200 patients who visited the ED from 1 July to 31 August 2007 were selected randomly and their case sheets were assessed for the documentation of the details in the retained copy of the discharge summary as shown in Table 1.
