040 __ |a NLM |b eng |c NLM |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d CDX |d NLE |d UKMGB |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d AU@ |d OCLCO

245 00 |a New principles of best practice in clinical audit / |c edited by Robin Burgess.

505 0_ |a Introduction: Foundations, tradition and new directions -- the future of clinical audit in a new decade / |r Robin Burgess -- Stage 1: Preparation, planning and organisation of clinical audit / |r Stephen Ashmore, Tracy Ruthven and Louise Hazelwood -- Stage 2: Measuring performance / |r Stephen Ashmore, Tracy Ruthven and Louise Hazelwood -- Stage 3: Implementing change / |r Stephen Ashmore, Tracy Ruthven and Louise Hazelwood -- Stage 4: Sustaining improvement / |r Stephen Ashmore, Tracy Ruthven and Louise Hazelwood -- Appendix 1: Ethics and clinical audit / |r Nancy Dixon -- Appendix 2: Clinical audit, impact and quality improvement: a discursive review / |r Christopher Loughlan -- Appendix 3: Four principles of change management / |r Kate Godfrey -- Appendix 4: Criteria and indicators for best practice in clinical audit / |r Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) -- Appendix 5: Clinical audit: a guide for NHS boards and partners / |r John Bullivant and Andrew Corbett-Nolan -- Appendix 6: Patient and public engagement (PPE) in clinical audit / |r HQIP -- Appendix 7: Further sources of help and information -- Appendix 8: List of abbreviations.

520 __ |a "With the NHS committed to making quality the centre of treatment, clinical audit - a proven and effective process for measuring quality and driving its imporvement - has never been amore topical issue... This book describes the process by which health professionals, managers and other NHS staff can assess the standard of care they deliver and how closely it corresponds with recommended best practice. It sets out the key principles of clinical audit practice, detailing advances in recent years such as simplified and accelerated audit, improved patient involvement, attention to ethics and methodology and the embedding of clinical audit in organisational governance as well as clinical practice."--Back cover.