Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit - Softcover

National Institute For Clinical Excellence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857759761 ISBN 13: 9781857759761

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The NHS needs to change its approach to clinical audit and this book sets out the principles that should guide those changes. All NHS organisations are required to have a comprehensive programme of quality improvement activity that includes clinicians participating fully in audit. As a quality improvement tool audit can demonstrate that real efforts are being made by a dedicated hard-pressed staff to deliver high-quality professional care to all their patients. Clinical governance presents a new challenge - to take audit 'at its best' and incorporate it within organisation-wide approaches to quality. This book will help NHS organisations create the environment and use the methods to support best practice in clinical audit throughout the NHS. The book also includes a CD-ROM containing the full text with hyperlinks and a review of the evidence.

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Review

"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

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857759761
• ISBN 13: 9781857759761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200