Validity of medical audit registrations

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...

Approaches to medical audit.

The last two or three years have seen an explosion of interest in medical audit, a phrase hitherto barely used in the UK except by a few hardy pioneers (for references, see' 2). Then in quick succession in the last two years appeared the Confidential Enquiry on Perioperative Deaths,3 the Report of the Royal College of Physicians on Medical Audit,4 and the White Paper "Working for patients".5 Th...

Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

Background: Alcohol consumption is one of the main health problems in most countries. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Methods: By employing the method of available sampling, 70 alcoholic patients were included as case group and 70 normal age, gender and education matched individuals were also inc...

Medical records, medical audit, and community hospitals.

A survey of community hospitals suggests a need for improving medical records and communications and introducing review procedures. A new and extended system based on an A4 size unit record is described. The benefits of a medical audit procedure in which all general practitioners and senior nurses participate are discussed.

"Medical audit of rectal biopsy diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease" is not medical audit.