Clinical Audit in Primary Care: Demonstrating Quality and OutcomesClinical audit is essential for demonstrating performance for the quality and outcomes framework of the GP Contract. This completely up to date manual uses a practical 'how-to-do-it' approach, linked directly to the GP Contract, to make the undertaking of clinical audit a positive and rewarding exercise for both patient care and practice finance. By using examples of clinical audit from around twenty different clinical fields, Clinical Audit in Primary Care provides tips and advice that can be integrated into everyday practice. The recommended process will enable managers, doctors, nurses and clinical staff to collect the data painlessly and to draw meaningful results from it. Its principles will also provide practical guidance to pharmacists and others in the multidisciplinary team involved in clinical audit. |
Contents
Audit methods | 23 |
Quality audit and evaluation | 41 |
Promoting change after audit | 47 |
diagnosis | 55 |
identification | 63 |
identifying patients | 70 |
smoking | 77 |
confirmation of diagnosis of angina | 85 |
monitoring | 108 |
register | 116 |
lithium medication | 124 |
repeat prescriptions | 132 |
telephone consultations | 140 |
diagnostic triage | 149 |
sterilisation of instruments | 157 |
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Other editions - View all
Clinical Audit in Primary Care: Demonstrating Quality and Outcomes Ruth Chambers,Gill Wakley Limited preview - 2018 |
Clinical Audit in Primary Care: Demonstrating Quality and Outcomes Ruth Chambers,Gill Wakley Limited preview - 2016 |
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References to this book
Clinical Effectiveness and Clinical Governance Made Easy Ruth Chambers,Elizabeth Boath,David Rogers Limited preview - 2007 |