Speaking as one of the Clinical Effectiveness Committee and therefore technically responsible for the current Audits, I would like to point out that the committee developed the "Department Markers" as topics that could be recorded reasonably well and actually meant something to patients and departments.
The full set of markers were available to the Audit commission. They were going to Audit A&E departments this year anyway, so it is a feather in the cap of BAEM and FAEM that they have taken some advice on their topics.
I have trialed the excel files with 5 cases in each and they are quick and easy to do and are quite revealing.
They have made me think about what we do in our department and i thought we were quite good!
These are not detailed audits of the full function, but I would be interested to see how we compare with other departments. It would be nice if there was some size descriptor so that we can attempt to compare like with like.
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From: Chris Kirke <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Accident and Emergency Academic List <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 02:16:28 -0000
>I see that we have another three targets to meet in A&E in the guise of the
>new national audits of paracetamol overdose, pain in children and fractured
>neck of femur.
>
>So what do people think - good or bad?
>
>Good idea in principal I think - it's the only way you can force
>improvement. But these three audit cycles alone are going to involve a lot
>of work. What's going to happen when they want us, understandably, to ensure
>and improve the quality of EVERYTHING we do? Seems like that's the way it's
>heading to me.
>
>Chris Kirke
>
>PS has anyone managed to access the web pages working on the BAEM and Audit
>Commission sites that are meant to tell us more about this?
>
>
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