Hypothesis / aims of study Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcome. The audit cycle consists of systematic review of care against explicit criteria, implementation of change and finally,a re-audit to complete the audit cycle. TVT was introduced in our institute in 2001. In 2003, The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) published...

BACKGROUND Medical students often struggle to engage in extra-curricular research and audit. The Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) network is a novel student-led, national research collaborative. Student collaborators contribute data to national, clinical studies while gaining an understanding of audit and research methodology and ethical principles. This study aimed to evaluate ...

BACKGROUND Clinical audit can be of valuable assistance to any program which aims to improve the quality of health care and its delivery. Yet without a coherent strategy aimed at evaluating audits' effectiveness, valuable opportunities will be overlooked. Clinical audit projects are required as a part of the formative assessment of trainees in the Family Medicine Residency Program (FMRP) in Kuw...

BACKGROUND This program examined the impact of clinical guidelines and a 3 year self audit process on general practitioners' diagnosis and management of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. METHODS Nine hundred and sixty-six Australian GPs participated in a retrospective five step clinical audit reporting on data for 28,622 patients. RESULTS General practitioners demonstrated significant impr...

BACKGROUND: The quality of health care and quality assurance are concepts which have been established for many years. Audit nowadays is adopted as a means of developing high quality care. AIM: This study aims to identify the perspectives of audit in practice and its relationship to quality assessment and assurance, quality improvement, and clinical effectiveness. METHODS: There were used the da...