Audit of terminal care in a general practice.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Nursing Audit Tool

Background: Better healthcare outcomes in health services are obtainable from frequently observing ongoing healthcare activities, gathering data, and assessing outcomes. Objectives: This study aimed to establish the basic principles of nursing care standards and practices in wards, develop a nursing audit tool for periodically monitoring and controlling o...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Audit in Practice

Objective-To determine satisfaction of relatives and general practitioners with care ofpatients during terminal illness and make recommendations on improving terminal care in general practice. Design-Interviews with available relatives of patients who had had terminal illnesses and died in 1987, supplemented by questionnaires; questionnaire survey of general practitioners after review of case n...

A survey of audit activity in general practice.

BACKGROUND Since 1991, all general practices have been encouraged to undertake clinical audit. Audit groups report that participation is high, and some local surveys have been undertaken, but no detailed national survey has been reported. AIM To determine audit activities in general practices and the perceptions of general practitioners (GPs) regarding the future of clinical audit in primary ...

Survey of general practice audit in Leeds.

OBJECTIVE To determine general practitioners' attitudes to medical audit and to establish what initiatives are already being undertaken; to define future ideas for audit and perceived difficulties in implementing audit in primary care. DESIGN Analysis of responses to a self administered postal questionnaire. SETTING Urban conurbation with a population of about 750,000. PARTICIPANTS 386 ge...