title: Quality assurance in clinical neurophysiology: the ESTEEM project example.
abstract: This paper describes the current status of the utilisation of clinical practice guidelines (protocols) in the ESTEEM project as one form of the clinical quality assurance procedures considered in the project. The performance of electrodiagnostic studies, in terms of which types of conclusions need to be inferred during the examination plan, is briefly described. The main focus of the paper is a description of an European multicentre clinical audit in the field of Clinical Neurophysiology, using a common data-entry protocol for prospective EMG case collection and assessment with the ultimate objective of building up a multicentre reference database of EMG cases.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Neurology, Hospital de Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veloso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vingtoft
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fawcett
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fuglsang-Frederiksen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johnsen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liguori
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nix
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Otte
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schofield
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003625:Data Collection; D004576:Electromyography / Q000295:instrumentation; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009482:Neurophysiology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted