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Enhancing Patient Care Through Clinical Audits: Objectives and Key Insights

This comprehensive guide explores the essentials of clinical audits, emphasizing their critical role in enhancing patient care quality. It differentiates between audits and research, outlines the necessary steps to conduct an effective audit, and discusses the importance of continuous evaluation. The document includes insights on fulfilling professional responsibilities as a GP, highlights key components such as annual appraisals and personal development plans, and presents various feedback mechanisms. Through systematic comparison and data analysis, audits help uncover blind spots and foster improvements in medical practice.

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Enhancing Patient Care Through Clinical Audits: Objectives and Key Insights

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  1. Dr Gen Wong Associate Clinical Director NHS Salford

  2. Clinical Audits

  3. Objectives • Why do we need to audit? • What is an audit (as oppose to research)? • How to perform an audit? • Case discussion

  4. Blind Spot

  5. Essential evidence proposed for Revalidation • A description of the GP’s professional roles • A statement of any exceptional circumstances • five annual appraisals • A personal development plan • review of previous year’s PDP • 250 learning credits • Audits in at least 2 significant clinical areas • 2 multi-source feedback • 2 patient surveys • 5 significant event audits • complaints • probity, health

  6. Clinical Audit A systematic quantified comparison against explicit standards of current medical practice in order to improve the quality of care to patients

  7. Audit vs. Research

  8. Audit vs. Research • Research determines what is best practice i.e. to provide new knowledge • Clinical audit determines if we are following best practice

  9. Clinical Audits • It is a learning process • To improve health of patients and not a witch hunt • Should not be threatening to those being evaluated

  10. Steps in Audit • Choose a topic • Select criteria • Set standards (with justification) • Preparation & Planning • 1st data collection, comparison with standards and analysis of data • Changes and actions taken • 2nd data collection, comparison with 1st data collection and standards • Final results and conclusions

  11. New or review TOPIC Criteria, standards & preparation Implement change Data collection Compare results with standards Discuss with practice

  12. Audits help us see our blind spot

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