Medical audit in general practice.

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

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...

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 ...

Practice characteristics associated with audit activity: a medical audit advisory group survey.

AIM A survey of general practices in West Glamorgan was carried out to assess the development of record systems and practice organization and to relate this to audit activity. METHOD Following mutual agreement practices were visited by two assessors. Visits were conducted using an agreed protocol and practice data were recorded on a semi-structured questionnaire, which had been sent to the pr...

Assessing the work of medical audit advisory groups in promoting audit in general practice.

Objectives--To determine the role of medical audit advisory groups in audit activities in general practice. Design--Postal questionnaire survey. Subjects--All 104 advisory groups in England and Wales in 1994. Main measures--Monitoring audit: the methods used to classify audits, the methods used by the advisory group to collect data on audits from general practices, the proportion of practices u...