1. Audit: how to do it in practice.
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Benjamin, Andrea
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AUDITING , *MEDICAL care , *EVALUATION of medical care , *PROFESSIONAL standards , *PROFESSIONAL standards review organizations (Medicine) , *MEDICAL quality control - Abstract
The article presents advice and information for junior doctors who are unfamiliar with performing a clinical medical audit of medical care which measures medical practice against medical standards in an effort to determine the quality of provided medical care. A discussion of the factors which an audit can assess, including the structure of care and the outcome of care, is presented. A discussion of research which has examined the effectiveness of audits is presented. Different types of audits which are used in medicine are discussed. INSET: Worked example: how to perform the perfect audit.
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- 2008
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