Audit and Clinical Research

Why clinical research needs medical audit.

Clinical research is considered by many doctors as erudite and not an activity likely to involve them directly. Indeed, most medical practitioners are so distanced from clinical research that they do not consider entering patients into clinical trials. The reasons for this are unclear but may derive from attitudes acquired as undergraduates , when research is often perceived as unrelated to the...

Clinical audit: more research is required.

The clinical research office of the endourological society audit committee.

The Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES) conducts large-scale, international, multicenter clinical trials in the field of endourology. One of the major challenges that these trials pose is to ensure that data collected remotely and online within a very short time frame are valid and reliable. This editorial describes a formal process for auditing the data by the CROES ...

Clinical audit and neurology.

Medical audit has been defined as "a systematic critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources, and the resulting outcome for the patient". In Britain, recent reforms of the Health Service increase the need for neurologists to undertake audit. The basic principles of audit in relation to the management of common ...

Research, audit and quality improvement.

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to clarify the distinction between research and audit, and propose appropriate regulatory arrangements for audit and related activities. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The methods used were literature reviews and conceptual analysis. FINDINGS Research and audit overlap in various ways, but differ in terms of their purposes and the risks likely to be encou...