At 10:18 04/10/1996 GMT+0, Nikki wrote:
>Good morning all,
>
>I am a researcher concerned with clincial audit from an information
>management persepective. I was aware of discrepancies within
>secondary care as to the precise nature of clinical audit however, I
>have recently been given yet another definition of audit within
>primary care and was wondering if anybody would be prepared to
>comment? The particluar questions with which I am concerned
>are as follows:
>
>1. What do you consider to be clinical audit?
>
Quick precis.
Take any subject.
Set a standard.
Look at what you are doing now and compare it to that standard.
If not reaching it, set measures/protocol to improve subject.
Set a time scale for implementation.
Most importantly *complete the audit cycle by doing it all again*.
>2. How does audit differ, if it does, from clinical research?
>
Audit is looking at what we are doing *now* and ensuring that we are
achieving a set standard, not looking at new treatments/procedures to see if
they are any good.
>Please send any comments, thoughts etc. regarding these questions to
>me directly and I will collate and post them to the list if such
>dissemination is wished for.
>
The funding for audit in General Practice is pathetic. Compare it with the
funding for audit in hospitals. Question - do any hospitals do proper audit?
I don't think our local trusts do:-(
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Dr David J Plews
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