Clinical Audit

The course syllabus is structured as follows:

• Introduction
• Clinical Audit
  • Definition
  • Other Audits
  • Who Can Benefit?
  • Why Is Clinical Audit Important?
• The Clinical Audit Cycle

• Setting the Scene
  • The History of Clinical Audit
  • Clinical Governance
  • The Kennedy Report and Clinical Audit
  • KeyFactors in Promoting a Successful Audit

• Misconceptions about Clinical Audit
  • Surveys/Questionnaires
  • Data Collection
  • GP Contracts and QOF
  • Service Evaluation
  • Monitoring
  • Significant Event Audit
  • Baseline Assessment
  • One-off Event
  • Research

• Ethics and Clinical Audit
  • Confidentiality
  • Ethical Considerations for Clinical Audit
  • Ethical Approval

• Selecting Audit Topics
  • Where do Audit Topics come from?
  • Howto Prioritise Audit Topics
• Setting Aims and Objectives
  • Structure of Aims and Objectives

• Developing Clinical Audit Criteria and Standards
  • Audit Criteria
  • Characteristics of Audit Criteria
  • Audit Standards
  • Audit Exceptions
  • Building Audit Exceptions into your Audit Plan

• Collecting the Data
  • Audit Protocols
  • Types of Data
  • Methods of Collection
  • Sampling Methods and Sizes

• Analysing the Data
  • Numerical (Quantitative) Data
  • Data Analysis Software
  • Free Text (Qualitative) Data
  • Presenting Results and Report Writing

• Making Changes
  • Barriers to Change
  • Implementing Change
  • Action Plan
  • Re-audit
• Conclusion