In its rule, the agency, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, will require the two companies to follow guidelines for audit committees being proposed by the New York Stock Exchange.
To ensure trustworthiness, the International Grid Trust Federation IGTFF) issued GFD-I.169 as guidelines for auditing the cloud/grid assurance bodies – the certification authorities (CAs) issuing X.509 certificates [32].
This retrospective audit complied with the UK NHS guidelines for audit and clinical service development.
The audit team was formed based on the recommendations of the national guidelines for audit team formation at the district hospital.
The study used the WHO/UNFPA Guidelines for auditing 129 service providers and to distinguish between basic and comprehensive services [ 15].
This retrospective audit complied with the UK National Health Service (NHS) guidelines for clinical audit and service development, and had appropriate approval.
Individual patient consent was waived by the Royal Free Hospital Research and Development office as the audit complied with NHS guidelines (UK NHS guidelines for clinical audit and service development, available at http://www.hra-decisiontools.org.uk/ethics/, and http://www.hra.nhs.uk/research-community/before-you-apply/determine-whether-your-study-is-research/).
This retrospective audit complied with both the local Royal Free Hospital Research and Development office and the UK NHS guidelines for clinical audit and service development, available at http://www.hra.nhs.uk/documents/2013/09/defining-research.pdf, and http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-research-ethics-committees-governance-arrangements.
The subsequent (November 2009) publication of the EC Guidelines for Clinical Audit [3] suggested a framework within which this could be carried out and detailed definitions of the processes.
The American Diabetes Association 2010 standards of medical care in diabetes were used as guidelines for the audit.
The lack of a national policy, strategy and/or guidelines for perinatal audit is a limitation in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries, though the availability of a policy alone is not a sufficient measure of success [ 17].
