Clinical Audit and Maintaining Clinical Excellence

Not sure where to start with your clinical audit? Would you like to know how to perform the perfect audit cycle? If so, then our clinical audit book is ideally suited for you.

Clinical audit is well recognised as a fundamental requirement to maintain high standards of clinical excellence within healthcare. It is therefore important that doctors have a clear understanding of what exactly the process of clinical audit entails, how to conduct an effective audit and how the results contribute to clinical excellence.

‘Clinical Audit for Doctors’ has been written by doctors for doctors of all grades and specialties. It provides step-by-step guidance through the entire audit process, from initial conception to the completion of the audit cycle. Through following the advice and guidance given in this highly readable and informative guide, readers will: 

·         Understand the relevance that involvement in clinical audit can have upon your career

·         Discover the pathway to clinical effectiveness

·         Learn how to recognise potential audits, and which audit is right for you

·         Identify the sources of support for clinical audit within and outside the Trust

·         Includes step-by-step instructions on how to design, conduct, analyse and present  a successful clinical audit

With a foreword by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer for England, Clinical Audit for Doctors will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to employ effective clinical excellence. It forms an essential aid for medical practitioners of all levels wishing to implement effective clinical audit. 

About the Author
Robert Ghosh is a Consultant Physician at the HomertonUniversityHospital, London. He is the Director of Intensive Care, Clinical Lead for Acute Care and Chairman of the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Committee. He has been influential in highlighting the relationship between clinical audit and clinical excellence, and reinforcing the concept of 'auditing audits'. He graduated from EdinburghUniversity, and his research interests include the neuromuscular assessment of critically ill patients and prognostication in hypoxic brain injury.

Readership

This book applies to medical students, trainee and junior doctors, consultants, clinicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals.

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To read an article by Robert Ghosh on clinical audit published by BMJ, click here.

Clinical Audit Book Testimonials

'I bought this book because I saw that Sir Liam Donaldson had written a foreword and was not disappointed.'

Dr AE