Quality improvement audit: General practice general surgical referrals

Quality improvement in general practice

Medical audit in general practice.

Increasing interest is being shown in the standards of medical care in general practice. The method of measuring these standards, known as medical audit, is discussed in relation to general practice in Great Britain.

Obstetric audit in general practice.

Many recent papers have tried to show how inadvisable it is for general practitioners to undertake obstetric care and more especially obstetric deliveries.1-3 The high proportion of artificially induced labours, the enthusiasm for the increasing "mechanisation" of labour, descriptions of unexpected and sinister disease that the inexperienced obstetrician would not detect have all made general p...

Open-access ultrasound referrals from general practice.

Direct access referral for radiological investigations from General Practice (GP) provides an indispensable diagnostic tool and avoids the inherently long waiting time that referral through a hospital based specialty would entail. Improving access to hospital based radiology services is one of Health Information and Quality Authority's key recommendations in its report on patient referrals from...

Urgent suspected cancer referrals from general practice: audit of compliance with guidelines and referral outcomes.

BACKGROUND Late diagnosis contributes to the UK having poorer cancer survival than many countries in Europe. Cancer referral guidelines help GPs decide which patients to refer urgently for further investigation. AIM To examine primary care referral patterns, compliance with referral guidance, and eventual outcome for patients. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective audit within general practice in ...