Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)2002Radcliffe Medical PressISBN 1 85775 976 1

The NHS needs to change its approach to clinical audit, and this book sets out the principles that should guide those changes. All NHS organisations are required to have a comprehensive programme of quality improvement activity that includes clinicians participating fully in audit. As a quality improvement tool,audit can demonstrate that real efforts are being made by a dedicated,hard-pressed staff to deliver high-quality professional care to all their patients. Clinical governance presents a new challenge – to take audit 'at its best' and incorporate it within organisation-wide approaches to quality. This book will help NHS organisations create the environment and use the methods to support best practice in clinical audit throughout the NHS.

It also includes a CD-ROM containing the full text with hyperlinks and a review of the evidence.