clinical audit

clinical audit
a quality-improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review. Aspects of the structure, processes, and outcomes of care are selected and systematically evaluated against explicit criteria. Where indicated, changes are implemented at an individual, team, or service level and further monitoring is used to confirm improvement in health-care delivery. The assessment, evaluation, and improvement of quality then forms a cycle of activity (audit cycle) that promotes sustained improvement (see diagram).
A distinction may be made between clinical audit, which refers to total care (involving doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, etc.), and medical audit, which refers to medical care specifically performed by doctors, although in practice the two terms are often used interchangeably.

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