Clinical auditing to improve patient outcomes
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چکیده
Auditing: what is it all about? Clinical audit is about measuring the quality of care we provide against relevant standards. If we are failing to meet these standards, the audit should help us understand the factors that are causing us to fail, so that we can set priorities and make improvements. Auditing forms part of a cycle of activities: • Selecting standards (setting our own or adopting existing standards or guidelines). • Doing the audit (or analysing the results of ongoing monitoring) and identifying where we are failing to meet standards • Identifying the factors causing us to fail, setting priorities, and taking actions to improve what we do. • Checking whether we have improved (by doing a full re-audit or by monitoring one or two indicators, for example, visual outcome or patient numbers) and finding other solutions if we have not improved. • If we have improved, repeating the cycle to identify and address the next set of problems or to measure ourselves against a new set of standards.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010