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Audit
The Commission for Health
Improvement's (CHI) Definition of Audit
- Audit is a quality improvement process to improve
patient care and outcomes for patients.
- It is a systematic review of care against explicit
criteria.
- Aspects of the structure, processes and outcomes
of care are selected and systematically evaluated.
- Changes can then be implemented at an individual,
team or service level.
- Further monitoring is used to confirm improvement
in health care delivery.
In other words we take an aspect
of care and compare it to a gold standard. If that
aspect falls short of the gold standard we change what
we are doing and then we compare it again to the gold
standard.
Every GP Registrar in
training has to undertake an
audit as part of their final assessment to be competent
to practice. Please find below links to audits carried
out in this practice.
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