& Clinical audit in radiology is not yet universally practised. & The EC Euratom Directive states that clinical audit should be carried out in the field of radiology. & EC Guidelines on Clinical Audit for Medical Radiological Practices are now available. & Much developmental work is required before clinical audit is comprehensively practised throughout Europe.

Editorial Audit: time to rethink Doctors carry out 20,000 audit projects each year. This will have cost the NHS £834 million by the end of the century.1 What is the benefit to patients? Most clinicians would immediately reply "very little". The NHS Executive is more guarded in reply, but, tellingly, has commissioned more research on the value of audit. The NHS Audit Initiative was formally laun...

For the application background on a guidance of audit information resource, this paper constructs the ontology of audit methods which is suitable for medical insurance in audit field, and provides information basis for the ontology-based rule reasoning, through utilizing the collected relevant information of audit methods in actual work of medical insurance. Then, the paper mainly researches th...

OBJECTIVES To develop a systematic method for both summative and formative audit of practice audits, and to use the method to review Oxfordshire practice audits and to plan improvement. DESIGN Development of a coding system for the audit cycle subsequently used prospectively to assess audits reported to medical audit advisory group coordinators on practice visits. SETTING All 85 general pra...

Recent guidelines recommend that where appro priate, procedures for the development of audit in medicine and professions allied to medicine can be replaced by comprehensive multidisciplinary audit of services. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1990) suggests that clinical audit, involving the work of other staffin the multidisciplinary team, is preferable to purely medical audit. Given the im...

OBJECTIVES To describe and evaluate the use of medical audit in general practice as an educational activity shared by undergraduate medical students and general practitioners. DESIGN A descriptive study, evaluated by a questionnaire survey of all participating practices and by results of completed student projects on general practice audit topics during three weeks in the first year of comple...

OBJECTIVES To identify the barriers and facilitators of doctors' engagement with clinical audit and to explore how and why these factors influenced doctors' decisions to engage with the NHS National Clinical Audit Programme. DESIGN A single-embedded case study. Mixed methods sequential approach with explorative pilot study and follow-up survey. Pilot study comprised 13 semi-structured intervi...

OBJECTIVE The concurrent, construct, and discriminant validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) were evaluated. AUDIT consists of a 10-item Core questionnaire and an 8-item Clinical procedure. AUDIT was designed to identify hazardous drinkers (whose drinking increases their risk of alcohol-related problems, though alcohol-associated harm has not yet occurred); harmful dr...

or initials ____________________________ Abstraction time (min) _______________________Physician name ___________________________ion time (min) _______________________Physician name ___________________________ First visit with this MD? YES NO First visit to this clinic? YES NO