The Audit Cycle
The Audit Cycle
Objectives
By the end of these revision notes, you should:
What is Clinical Audit?
Clinical audits are methods used to systematically examine, reflect and implement change to improve patient care. Clinical audit is a key pillar of clinical governance.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence describe audit as:
a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through a systematic review against explicit criteria and the implementation of change.
What is the Audit Cycle?
The audit cycle describes the six key steps that should form any audit. These are:
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Step 1 - Identify the issue
Step 2 - Set the standard
Step 3 - Collect the data
Step 4 - Analyse the data
Step 5 - Implement change
Step 6 - Re-audit
Example of an audit
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Summary