The use of weekly departmental review of all orthopaedic intra-operative radiographs in order to improve quality, due to standardized peer expectations and the " Hawthorne effect"

Surgeon

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-13

  Kennedy, Muiris T ^a   Ong, Joshua C Y ^a   Mitra, Aniruddha ^a   Harty, James A ^a   Reidy, Declan ^a   Dolan, Mark ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Audit; DHS; Dynamic hip screw; Hawthorne effect; Proximal femur fracture; Quality control; TAD; Tip apex distance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872261100     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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