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Clare Oakley, Floriana Coccia, Neil Masson
ISBN: 9781908020017
Format: Paperback
Publisher:RCPsych Publications
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Audit is an essential activity for all psychiatrists. This book helps ease the audit process by offering tried and tested recipes for conducting audits in clinical services. All audits have been undertaken by the authors who give practical advice for carrying them out in day to day practice. Useful for both consultants and trainees.
Audit is an essential activity for all psychiatrists and this book will help ease the audit process by offering tried and tested recipes for conducting audits in clinical services. All the audits have been undertaken by the authors who give practical advice for carrying them out in day to day practice. This book will be useful for both consultants undertaking revalidation and for trainees doing their Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP).
| ISBN | 1908020016 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781908020017
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | RCPsych Publications | | Published in | London | | Imprint | RCPsych Publications | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY | 362.2 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Introduction: What is audit? The audit cycle. Distinguishing audit from research. Why is audit important? What is best practice in audit? How can the results of audit lead to changes in practice? How can audit benefit doctors? Completing an audit project: Step 1. Choose a topic. Step 2. Consider forming a multidisciplinary team. Step 3. Review the literature. Step 4. Set standards. Step 5. Choose an audit design. Step 6. Collect the data. Step 7. Analyse the data. Step 8. Make conclusions and recommendations. Step 9. Disseminate results. Step 10. Implement change. Step 11. Re-audit. Part I: Disorders: 1. Acute confusion: recognition. 2. Antenatal and postnatal mental health. 3. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: provision of information. 4. Bipolar depression: treatment. 5. Bipolar disorder: management. 6. Bipolar disorder: shared decision-making. 7. Bipolar disorder: treatment. 8. Chronic fatigue syndrome. 9. Dementia: driving 10. Dementia: end-of-life care. 11. Dementia: investigations. 12. Depression: management in children and young people. 13. Eating disorders: management. 14. Epilepsy: management. 15. Opiate dependence and pregnancy. 16. Schizophrenia: family interventions. 17. Schizophrenia: management. 18. Schizophrenia: occupational achievements. 19. Self-harm: assessment. 20. Self-harm: assessment in children. Part II: Legislation: 21. Consent to treatment (Scotland). 22. Consent to treatment and second-opinion approved doctors. 23. Mental Health Act (Scotland). 24. Seclusion. 25. Section 17 leave. 26. Section 136 assessments. 27. Tribunal reports. Part III: Physical health: 28. Diabetes: management. 29. Infection control. 30. Metabolic side-effects of antipsychotics. 31. Metabolic syndrome. 32. Monitoring growth and blood pressure in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. 33. Physical examinations: equipment. 34. Physical health of in-patients: assessment. 35. Physical health of in-patients: record-keeping. 36. Physical health of patients with severe mental illness. 37. Screening for blood-borne viruses. 38. Screening for breast and cervical cancer. 39. Smoking cessation. 40. Testing for illicit drug use. 41. Venepuncture equipment. Part IV: Record-keeping: 42. Alcohol history. 43. Care plans in community drug and alcohol teams. 44. Care programme approach: home treatment teams. 45. Care programme approach: prisons. 46. Care programme approach: secondary care. 47. Confidential waste. 48. Documentation of the psychiatric history. 49. Documentation of ward reviews. 50. Letters to general practitioners. 51. Medication alerts in electronic patient records. 52. Risk assessment: forms for in-patients. 53. Risk assessment: medium-secure unit. Part V: Service provision: 54. Early intervention teams. 55. Emergency department: attendance. 56. Information for in-patients on their rights. 57. Interpreters. 58. Liaison psychiatry: response time to referrals. 59. Multi-agency working. 60. Personal searches. 61. Prison equivalence. 62. Prison-to-hospital transfers. 63. Seven-day follow-up. 64. Substance misuse: Treatment Outcomes Profile. 65. Transition from 'choice' to 'partnership' in the Choice and Partnership Approach. 66. Transition planning in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. 67. Violent incidents: management. 68. Waiting times. Part VI: Training: 69. Audits. 70. Course attendance. 71. Safety. 72. Workplace-based assessments. Part VII: Treatment: 73. Alcohol withdrawal: management. 74. Anticholinesterase inhibitors: monitoring of cardiac side-effects. 75. Anticholinesterase inhibitors: prescribing. 76. Antimuscarinic medications. 77. Antipsychotics: combined and high dose. 78. Antipsychotics: prescribing. 79. Antipsychotics: use in dementia. 80. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: prescribing. 81. Atypical antipsychotics: monitoring. 82. Behavioural problems in adults with intellectual disabilities: medication management. 83. Benzodiazepines in old age psychiatry. 84. Covert admi
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