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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.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #116806 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

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"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