ArticleCureus2022
The Value of Auditing Surgical Records in a Tertiary Hospital Setting.
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- Implementation of a Standardized Surgical Operative Note: A Clinical Audit at Atbara Teaching Hospital.Cureus · 2025Article
- Unveiling documentation deficiencies: a clinical audit of histopathology request forms at a tertiary care hospital.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Evaluating and Improving the Quality of Surgical Operative Notes at Elobeid Teaching Hospital: A Two-Phase Audit.Cureus · 2025Article
- Evaluating and Improving the Quality of Surgical Operative Notes at the Port Sudan Teaching Hospital.Cureus · 2024Article
- An Audit of General Surgery Clinical Records (2021) in Ribat University Hospital, Sudan.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Assessment of the quality of oral squamous cell carcinoma clinical records in oral surgery with Surgical Tool for Auditing Records (STAR) scoring.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- CRABEL Score Assessment for Oral Surgery Excision Biopsy Case Notes of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Current trends on clinical audit on surgical record keeping.Bioinformation · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundAssessing and improving quality of care should be of paramount importance to health care systems and providers. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of surgical records at the Jordan University Hospital.
methodsWe used the previously validated Surgical Tool for Auditing Records (STAR) to retrospectively evaluate the quality of surgical records of patients who underwent surgery in the general surgery department from 2016 to 2021. Total STAR and section-specific STAR scores were compared using the two independent sample Student's ttest on SPSS Statistics, version 23 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY).
resultsA total of 488 records were selected and evaluated using the STAR. The total STAR scores significantly improved steadily throughout the years compared to the baseline in 2016, reaching the highest in 2021. All domains had improved compared to the baseline except for anesthesia records that did not change from an already high baseline. The highest improvements between STAR domains were observed in Initial Clerking and Consent domains.
conclusionOur study demonstrates that significant improvements in the quality of surgical records can be achieved by simply using an electronic record entry system, personnel education, and systematic auditing.
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