Clinical audit: essential input for enhancing standards of care.

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  • Y Khalid
چکیده

Maintaining and enhancing standards of clinical care requires continuous effort and vigilance on the part of the care providers. This is partly because standards of care itself is always changing, being responsive to new therapeutic findings or new manifestation and characteristics of the disease or new understanding of its pathophysiology. We are accustomed to the need for adopting new antibiotics or for using new antihypertensive agents with perhaps better safety and efficacy profile or for prescribing new anti-heart failure regimen for better prognostic outcome. Above and beyond these considerations, modern management of patients should also encompass some economic imperatives such as cost-benefit considerations, quality-of-life evaluation and cultural acceptance of new therapeutic initiatives.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Medical journal of Malaysia

دوره 53 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998