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From: "Women's Health Information Services" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:08 PM
Subject: audit or research?
> I am interested to hear of any countries or research centres who have
> tackled the difficult area of defining audit and whether policies or
> guidelines have been developed to provide clarity on what constitutes an
> audit and when particular answers being sought from a review of clinical
> records moves into the area of being a research study. This lack of
clarity
> about what is audit and what is research continues to be an issue in New
> Zealand. Various views and opinions have been expressed over the years but
> there is no shared understanding or agreement on how this distinction is
> determined. This has obvious implications for patients/participants as
there
> are specific safeguards, consent procedures and ethical requirements to be
> met before a research study can proceed. However, an audit is able to
> proceed without any of these taking place.
> Judi Strid
> Women's Health Action
> Auckland
> New Zealand
>
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