...Alexis Bowers Purpose The purpose of this study is to improve compliance with clinical risk procedures across a United Kingdom based mental health trust. Design/methodology/approach A cross‐sectional audit was carried out in April 2010. In total, 70 Risk Assessment Proformas (RAPS) were...

...Aravind Komuravelli; Jennifer Smith Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of a number of audits on clinical practice within a large mental health NHS trust. It aims to consider all audits that had been reaudited by psychiatry trainees and to compare the adherence to various standards...

...Zoe Paskins; Holly John; Andy Hassell; Ian Rowe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an annual rheumatology regional audit programme that has been running since 2000 in the West Midlands with no additional funding. Specifically it seeks to identify the strengths of, and difficulties...

...Ranganath D. Rattehalli; Hannele Variend; Keith Miller; Mahesh Jayaram Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an audit which assessed compliance in documentation of crisis and contingency plans in the electronic Care Programme Approach (CPA) for working age adult patients discharged from...

...Helen Oakes Purpose The orthopaedic consultants at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust had questioned whether the Extended Scope Practitioners (ESPs) and consultants were forming a comparable diagnosis and treatment plan. This audit aims to identify what percentage of patients received a comparable...

... and appropriateness of surgical and radiological referrals by ESPs working in an adult orthopaedic service. Design/methodology/approach The patient pathway following ESP assessment was audited over 31 months. Parameters explored included ESP referral rates to orthopaedic consultants; the percentage of patients...

...Ziver F. Ismail; Tevfik F. Ismail; Alan J. Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to audit the use of three strategies for protecting hospital inpatients with allergies: red allergy wristbands for patients with allergies; white identification wristbands for all patients; and completion...

...Stephanie Coughlin; Frank Milligan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an audit undertaken on the use of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) scoring system, and adherence to agreed treatment protocols, in the triage of patients with cardiac chest pain...

... in universal implementation of NICE guidelines despite the supporting evidence. Originality/value This study demonstrates the issue of difficulty of local health economies in supporting national guidelines. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Auditing Auditing guidelines Medical care...

... in Pretoria, after the introduction of new management protocols supported by regular audit and feedback. Design/methodology/approach A comparison of outcome of all women with severe acute maternal morbidity or maternal deaths was made between 1997/1998 (original protocol) and 2002/2004 (new protocol...

...S.E. Liyanage; S. Thyagarajan; S. Khemka; M. Blades; D.V. de Alwis Purpose The purpose of this paper was to prospectively audit an eye department's quality of note keeping in a casualty setting. Design/methodology/approach The paper found that locally agreed standards for quality...

... these programmes can be categorised using the paradigms of research and audit. Making a distinction between what constitutes audit, quality improvement and research is important in the context of enhanced clinical and research governance requirements and in an environment of both sensitivity in relation...

...Jennifer Langworthy; Wendy Clow; Alan Breen Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate acceptability, dissemination and use of a multidisciplinary audit toolkit to monitor evidence‐based care for acute low back pain and to identify barriers to implementation of the RCGP evidence‐based...

...A. Nooh; G.P. Downey Purpose The aim of this audit was to determine if patients with a diagnosis of a suspected ectopic pregnancy had been managed in accordance with the evidence‐based guidelines policy of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at City Hospital, Birmingham. In particular...

...H.V. Tempest; N. Kumar; J. Rucker; A. Knight; A. Saleemi Purpose An audit was undertaken, aimed at investigating documentation of hospital urethral catheterisation in patients’ notes. Design/methodology/approach Standards were devised by the urology department and documentation...

...Jayesh Bhatt; Christine Nye; Vincent Kirkbride Gentamicin is one of the most frequently used antibiotics in neonatal units and there are many regimes in use based on weight and/or gestational age (GA). Direct costs include prescription and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). A retrospective audit...

... in the NICE guidelines on the use of methylphenidate for ADHD, published in 2000. Following the establishment of an ADHD Assessment Clinic in Peterborough, its performance was audited in light of these guidelines and recommendations from other publications. Audit standards for assessment and stimulant...

...K.R.S. Prasad; K.T.V. Reddy Most studies looking into completion of the audit cycle, have investigated specific interventions rather than entire projects. This study was carried out to evaluate the successful completion of the audit cycle depending on whether or not recommendations were acted...