Audit

This assessment involves investigating and writing a report based on a Coding Benchmark Audit. You will be provided with 40 cases that need to be coded by yourself by week 8 at the latest. The resulting coding outcomes will be known as Coder A. For audit purposes from these records you will regard the answers that you have coded as being those provided by Coder A.This information then needs to be sent in a spreadsheet to Sharon who will then make Coder B’s results available to you through Blackboard. Therefore you need to have two lists of coded answers for each medical record, the first list will be your answers (Coder A) and the second list will be the answers provided to you (Coder B). These two lists will form the basis of your audit analysis.
The audit will be carried out in accordance with industry standards provided by the Australian Coding Benchmark Audit (ACBA). You are now Coder B.
To analyse and write the report on the audit you need to have reviewed the data from the 40 medical records so you have a large enough sample size to analyse.
You are writing the report for the Chief Executive Officer and therefore you need to include an Executive Summary before your Contents page, followed by a full and complete report including possible variances between Coder A and Coder B. The report should also contain:

1-Executive summary
1.1 Aim of the project
1.2 Scope
1.3 Summary of statistical results
1.4 Issues arising from the coding audit
1.4.1 Non compliance with Australian Coding Standards + Recommendation
1.4.2 Coder education +recommendation
1.4.3 Clinical engagement +recommendation
1.4.4 Practice Documentation + recommendation
1.4.5 Quality control+ recommendation
2-Introduction
2.1-Define what audit is (two different sources)
2.2-why we need audit
2.3-Justification

Unit VIII Course Project
1. Conduct an audit of the following safety management system elements at your organization, or an organization with which you are familiar and have access to the required information:
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ELEMENTS
ANSI/AIHA Z10 SECTIONS
COURSE TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS
1. Occupational Health and Safety Management System
3.1.1 8
2. Occupational Health and Safety Policy
3.1.2 8
3. Responsibility and Authority 3.1.3 8 4. Employee Participation 3.2 8 5. Review Process, Assessment, and Prioritization 4.1, 4.2 9 6. Risk Assessment 5.1.1 11 7. Hierarchy of Controls 5.1.2 14 8. Design Review 5.1.3 15 9. Management of Change 5.1.3 19 10. Procurement 5.1.4 20 11. Monitoring and Measurement 6.1 21 12. Incident Investigation 6.2 22 13. Audits 6.3 23 14. Corrective and Preventive Actions 6.4 23 15. Feedback to the Planning Process 6.5 23 16. Management Review 7.1, 7.2 24
Below you will find some suggested sources for the objective evidence to support your evaluation:
BOS 3651, Total Environmental Health and Safety Management  4
Observation: Walk through some workplaces to observe conditions for yourself. · Interviews: Management personnel, supervisors, and employees · Records: E-mails or letters from management to employees, safety meeting minutes, mishap logs, audit reports, OSHA citations, inspection reports, risk assessments, and training records.  · Documents: Organizational safety manuals and instructions, safe operating procedures, and job hazard analyses  ·
2. For each management system element, discuss the objective evidence you found (or were unable to find). Evaluate the effectiveness of the organization’s implementation of each element against available reference sources and best practice information. Use the following five-tier evaluation scheme to rate each element:
Major Effort Required: Major or systemic non-conformances exist · Significant Non-Conformances Exist: Still needs focus · Moderate: Scattered non-conformances need to be addressed, positive trends/major elements in place · Strong: Conforming/complete, may have minor gaps with action plans · World Class: OHS performance ·
Appropriate references include the course textbook, textbooks from other college-level courses, ANSI/AIHA Z102012, other published consensus standards (ANSI, ASSE, AIHA, ISO, NFPA, etc.), OSHA standards and voluntary guidelines, and articles published in professional journals. Blogs, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com and other unmonitored Internet resources are not considered scholarly references and should not be used. Please contact your professor if you have any questions about the appropriateness of a reference source.
3. If an element is found to be less than World Class, provide recommendations for improvement. Be sure to use appropriate scholarly reference sources to support your recommendations.
4. Conclude the audit report with a summary of the overall status of the organization’s safety management system.
The Course Project must be a minimum of seven pages and a maximum of 10 pages in length, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. A minimum of five professional references sources must be used.