(a.) An examination in general; a judicial examination.
(a.) The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
(a.) A general receptacle or receiver.
(v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.
(v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.
Example Sentences:
(1) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(2) One year later similar analysis showed that record keeping (recording of pulse rate and rhythm) had improved significantly in the group of principals carrying out the audit but not in other principals in these practices.
(3) (5) is the audit tool based on relevant and measurable criteria and standards?
(4) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(5) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
(6) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(7) This article--the first of three on measuring quality of life--reviews the instruments available and their application in screening programmes, audit, health care research, and clinical trials.
(8) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(9) YouTube has always audited videos in an effort to try to spot inflated counts, but the company is now stepping up its efforts according to Pfeiffenberger: "While in the past we would scan views for spam immediately after they occurred, starting today we will periodically validate the video’s view count, removing fraudulent views as new evidence comes to light.
(10) Another senior member of Abdullah's team dismissed the audit as a sham.
(11) "Some have problems in enforcing their transfer pricing regimes due to gaps in the law, weak or no regulations and guidelines for companies, and limited technical capacity to carry out transfer pricing risk assessment and transfer pricing audits, and to negotiate transfer pricing adjustments with multinational companies."
(12) Would you agree with that?” She said she did not agree, adding: “We were told on numerous occasions that the advice wouldn’t be changing.” Reynolds said one reason security did not form part of safety audits was that the conditions and circumstances of security were “variable” in contrast with the more static nature of swimming pool depths, for example.
(13) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
(14) "In addition, the Department for Communities and Local Government [DCLG] has failed to provide the council with any cost estimates for the audit apart from the vague statement that costs are likely to be 'within £1m'.
(15) The effect of the audit on recording levels has also been determined by means of a second audit one year later.
(16) The audit of behaviors of health care providers is a valuable tool for learning the essentials of primary care and health care delivery.
(17) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
(18) Mechanisms to promote changes in clinical practice styles include independent professional audit, peer review, and involvement of clinicians in budgeting and resource allocation.
(19) What is really needed now are not more investigations, more reports, more consultants or more inspections, audits and measuring.
(20) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
Counsel
Definition:
(n.) Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.
(n.) Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.
(n.) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
(n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.
(v. t.) To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
(v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(4) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
(7) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.
(8) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
(9) A daily clinic was organized for abortion counseling.
(10) The conclusion of this section is that the law fails to address women's needs for adequate and accurate abortion counseling.
(11) One group received additional health education and counseling independent of clinic staff, and the other group only received health education and counseling from clinic staff.
(12) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
(13) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(14) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
(15) Early ultrasound diagnosis enabled appropriate genetic counselling to be given; neonatal complications, such as hypoglycaemic episodes, were prevented.
(16) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
(17) The variable phenotypic effects of ring G chromosomes, as well as several aspects of genetic counseling are discussed.
(18) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
(19) Women doctors gave comparatively more counseling than men.
(20) Important considerations for the obstetrician concerning hereditary antithrombin III deficiency are discussed, including: 1) the need to therapeutically anticoagulate these patients postpartum, 2) the need to consider prophylactic anticoagulation throughout pregnancy especially in patients with a history of thrombosis, 3) the practical aspects of assaying antithrombin III in plasma rather than serum, 4) the normally low antithrombin III levels in normal newborns, and 5) the need to provide prepregnancy counseling, including information about the autosomal dominant inheritance of hereditary antithrombin III deficiency.