Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance. It provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients with common conditions like asthma or diabetes and builds on a long history of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals reviewing case notes and seeking ways to serve their patients better. The clinical audit also addresses the quality issues systematically and explicitly, providing reliable information, and can confirm the quality of clinical services and highlight the need for improvement. This text provides clear statements of principle about clinical audit in the NHS, and reviews the literature concerned with the development of audit over recent years.

ISBN 1857759761   DEWEY 362.1068 ISBN13 9781857759761 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC21 Publisher Radcliffe Publishing Ltd   Pages 200 Imprint Radcliffe Publishing Ltd   Published in Oxford Format Multimedia Item   Height (mm) 210 Publication date 01 Dec 2002   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate Writer of foreword Sir Michael Rawlins, Dame Deirdre Hine

		Contributing authors
		Acknowledgements
		Foreword
		Clinical audit in the NHS: a statement from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
		Introduction: using the method, creating the environment		1
Stage 1		Preparing for audit		9
Stage 2		Selecting criteria		21
Stage 3		Measuring level of performance		33
Stage 4		Making improvements		47
Stage 5		Sustaining improvement		59
		App. I: Glossary		69
		App. II: Online resources for clinical audit		73
App. III		National audit projects sponsored by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence		93
		App. IV: Further reading		97
		App. V: Key points and key notes		101
		App. VI: Checklists		105
App. VII		Approach to examining clinical audit during a clinical governance review used by the Commission for Health Improvement		115
App. VIII		Recommendations from the Report of the Public Inquiry into Children's Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995 (2001) and the Government's response (2002)		119
App. IX		Lessons learnt from the National Sentinel Audit Programme		125
		App. X: List of desirable characteristics of review criteria		131
		App. XI: Review of the evidence		133
		Index		191

"Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance. - Clinical audit provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients with common conditions like asthma or diabetes - Clinical audit builds on a long history of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals reviewing case notes and seeking ways to serve their patients better - Clinical audit addresses the quality issues systematically and explicitly, providing reliable information - Clinical audit can confirm the quality of clinical services and highlight the need for improvement This book provides clear statements of principle about clinical audit in the NHS. The authors have reviewed the literature concerned with the development of audit over recent years, and are able to speak about clinical audit with considerable personal authority.' From the Foreword by Sir Michael Rawlins and Dame Deirdre Hine

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