Netaudit to Congress in 2004 and Dr. Falasca the CDC in Atlanta
13 and September 14, 2004 Dr. Pasquale Falasca, responsible for Italy's Epi-info (www.epiinfo.it) and collaborator Netaudit stable in its report has given wide coverage to the activities of the Italian group of General Practitioners of Netaudit at the CDC in Atlanta
Links to the entire report and its':
http://proxy.racine.ra.it/epiinfo/ Epi 20Info%% 20in% 20Italy_file/frame.htm
In particular Netaudit Falasca expressed the following thought (below translated into Italian)
"The assessment of clinical activity (audit) is an essential element for general medicine. EpiInfo was used due to its versatility and simplicity for the conduct of audits to networking among general practitioners.
Net Audit is a research method of MG via the Internet, which is based on the performance of audits, short (3 hours research) problem-based use of the Epi-Info package for the rapid production of questionnaires in electronic form, data recording and statistical analysis of the same. The project NetAudit (www.netaudit.org) was founded in 2001 after the initial stimulus of some general practitioners, currently consists of a confederation of groups of MG, organized in 15 coordinators responsible for discussing and 4 in 2-mailing list. The program is geared to develop the impact of clinical audit on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the MG beginner in the art of verification of clinical practice. The results of statistical processing (graphs and tables)
were published in advance on the Italian site of Epi Info (www.epiinfo.it) and conclusively in the journal QQ (Quality and Quality in General Practice - www.rivistaqq . en).
From March 2001 were carried out eight audits with the participation of 172 mg (60% in North Italy, 21% and 19% of the Center of the South), 3812 patients examined on a total population of 241,682 patients. In May 2004, was organized in Bertinoro the first course to physicians tend to target the development of epidemiological skills and computer studies at the base of the Net Audit. Epi Info is a partner of the 'European General Practice Research Network.
E 'poster was presented on the congress of this society in Verona on 16 to 19 October 2003 entitled "Tools for the research in general practice: the Experiences of NetAudit"
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