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Published on: February 16, 2011
Clinical audit, related cycles and types of health care quality: a preliminary model
1Nursing Research Unit, King's College, London University, UK.
Abstract:
This paper is drawn from a study carried out in England, funded by the Department of Health. The aims of the study were to explore clinical audit in the four health professions of clinical psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy and to develop a model of clinical audit and guidelines for use by practitioners and managers. The focus in this paper is the model development. Included are examples of audits relevant to different types of health care quality that illustrate the process of clinical audit using the model. The modelling process involved interrogating the clinical audit cycle and related cycles against the data and identifying their inter-connecting links. The model was refined and reformulated to include guidelines for the professions on what is needed to make clinical audit work. The position of the professional service manager is crucial. A mandate that includes creating machinery at provider unit level, mobilizing the principal working groups and promoting internalization of audit by practitioners, is essential for audit to be effective.
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