Let's Do Audit!
A Practical Guide to Improving the Quality of Medical Care through Criterion-Based Audit

This book demonstrates how to improve quality of care using simple steps.

Andrew Weeks (Author), Katie Lightly (Author), Sam Ononge (Author)

9781906985356, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)

Paperback / softback, published 1 June 2010

104 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 0.5 cm, 0.2 kg

'This book demonstrates extraordinary clarity on audit and has been reinforced with easy to follow steps and diagrams … a MUST for all who want audit but don't know where to start.' Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

This book is aimed at everyone who wants to improve the quality of the medical care they provide: nurses, doctors, managers, healthcare assistants, students, laboratory clinicians and so on. The book demonstrates how to examine the quality of the care you provide using simple steps: decide what you should be doing in any circumstance, examine whether or not you are doing it and then look for ways of improving your care until you are doing it correctly. The book contains six lessons, each designed to take around one hour, with exercises to complete. The lessons can be used by individuals or in a group setting. The book will be of interest to anyone working in healthcare practice who is keen to find a better way of working.

Introduction
Lesson 1. An introduction to clinical audit
Lesson 2. Problem identification
Lesson 3. Setting standards and establishing criteria
Lesson 4. Measuring current practice
Lesson 5. Analysing the data and comparing practice with agreed criteria
Lesson 6. Implement change and re-audit
Conclusion - let's do audit! References
Appendix. Worked examples of audits
Glossary of terms
Index.

Subject Areas: Public health & preventive medicine [MBN], Medicine [M], Working patterns & practices [KJWX]