tailieunhanh - Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (Review)

Having auditors attest to the reliability of financial statements of public companies is intended to increase public and investor confidence in the fairness of the financial information. Moreover, investors and other users of financial statements expect auditors to bring integrity, independence, objectivity, and professional competence to the financial reporting process and to prevent the issuance of misleading financial statements. The resulting sense of confidence in companies’ audited financial statements, which is key to the efficient functioning of the markets for public companies’ securities, can exist only if reasonable investors perceive auditors as independent and expert professionals who will conduct thorough. | Audit and feedback effects on professional practice and health care outcomes Review Jamtvedt G Young JM Kristoffersen DT O Brien MA Oxman AD THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION This is a reprint of a Cochrane review prepared and maintained by The Cochrane Collaboration and published in The Cochrane Library 2007 Issue 4 http WIJUEY J Publishers Since 1807 Audit and feedback effects on professional practice and health care outcomes Review 1 Copyright 2007 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley Sons Ltd TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . 1 PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY. 2 BACKGROUND. 2 OBJECTIVES . 3 CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERING STUDIES FOR THIS REVIEW. 3 SEARCH METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF STUDIES . 3 METHODS OF THE REVIEW. 4 DESCRIPTION OF STUDIES. 6 METHODOLOGICAL QUALITY. 6 RESULTS. 6 DISCUSSION. 11 AUTHORS CONCLUSIONS . 13 POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. 13 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . 13 SOURCES OF SUPPORT. 14 REFERENCES. 14 TABLES . 24 Characteristics of included studies. 24 Characteristics of excluded studies. 72 ADDITIONAL TABLES. 74 Table 01. Quality of included trials. 74 GRAPHS AND OtHeR TABLES. 79 INDEX TERMS . 79 COVER SHEET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 GRAPHS AND OTHER TABLES. 81 Figure 01. Adjusted RR versus Baseline ComplianceWeighted Regression Line IncludedOne Study Excluded . 81 Figure 02. Box Plot. Adjusted RR versus IntensityOne study excluded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Figure 03. Box Plot. Adjusted RD versus Intervention TypeOne study excluded . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Audit and feedback effects on professional practice and health care outcomes Review Copyright 2007 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley Sons Ltd i Audit and feedback effects on professional practice and health care outcomes Review Jamtvedt G Young JM Kristoffersen DT O Brien MA Oxman AD This record should be cited as Jamtvedt G YoungJM Kristoffersen DT O Brien MA OxmanAD. Audit and feedback effects on .