[ 17] Palliative care planning that takes account of preferences and family support may reduce the number of unplanned admission among CHF patients (an internal audit [unpublished data] found that within the Hospital 22% of discharged heart failure patients were readmitted within 30 days).
A validation study involving 10,106 face-to-face patient interviews in 26 government hospitals throughout WA in 2000, and in a subsequent restricted internal audit using data linkage to assess the quality of identification of Aboriginal people in HMDC from 2000-2004, reporthatthAboriginalityity was understated by 6% [ 9].
It may involve little more than acting on an internal audit of procurement data.
Using a unique data set, this study examines how the quality of the relationship between the internal audit and the information security functions affects objective measures of the overall effectiveness of an organization's information security efforts.
Good governance practices such as complete and accurate data collection/submission, internal audit, transparent publication of results and benchmarking against defined quality standards perpetuate good performance.
These data formed part of an ongoing internal audit within our department using routinely collected clinical data, and therefore in the opinion of Tayside Research Ethics Committee, did not require formal ethical approval [see Additional file 1].
Internal audit processes were conducted on the study data, including validation of information collected from interviews against facility records.
"When Facebook sought further assurances a year ago, we carried out an internal audit to make sure that all the data, all derivatives and backups had been deleted, and gave Facebook a certificate to this effect.
When Facebook sought further assurances a year ago, we carried out an internal audit to make sure that all the data, all derivatives, and all backups had been deleted, and gave Facebook a certificate to this effect.
A Serco statement said the majority of data it examined in its internal audit had been recorded correctly but added that it had said sorry to the PCT for the 252 cases where false data had been reported.
