Educational aspects of medical audit.

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING

Evaluation of medical audit.

OBJECTIVE To review current knowledge of the effectiveness of medical audit programmes as a whole and of specific interventions within these programmes, as a means of changing clinical behaviour. CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF PUBLISHED REPORTS: Articles listed on Medline from 1985-92 with key words "quality assurance" or "medical audit", and "evaluation" and relevant references from t...

Aspects of audit. 3: Audit in British general practice.

Compared with hospitals, general practice has many handicaps in developing medical audit. This is especially true with regard to defining objectives and outcomes of care. Many methods have been proposed to overcome these problems, and several audit studies that have been published are presented here. Further work should concentrate on evaluating the effectiveness of audit in bringing about chan...

Educational potential of medical audit: observations from a study of small groups setting standards.

While the main thrust of medical audit has been towards improving clinical performance, there has been increasing recognition of its impact as a method of continuing medical education. Thus, the Royal College of Physicians stated that "education is the most useful product of audit,"' and the Royal College of Surgeons noted the educational importance of audit "for both seniors and juniors."' Fur...

Audit of oxygen therapy in acute general medical wards following an educational programme.

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have shown that the administration of supplementary oxygen (O2) in hospitalised patients outside the intensive care units (ICU) was usually empirical, inappropriate and not in compliance with physiological guidelines. It has been suggested that routine use of portable pulse oximeters in general wards plus in-service education of doctors and nurses may ameliorate th...