Clinical audit,a valuable tool to improve quality of care:General methodology and applications in nephrology
Clinical audit,a valuable tool to improve quality of care:General methodology and applications in nephrology作者机构:Unit of NephrologyDialysis and TransplantationFondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo and University of Pavia
出 版 物:《World Journal of Nephrology》 (世界肾病学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2014年第3卷第4期
页 面:249-255页
学科分类:12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120402[管理学-社会医学与卫生事业管理(可授管理学、医学学位)] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学]
摘 要:Evaluation and improvement of quality of care provided to the patients are of crucial importance in the daily clinical practice and in the health policy planning and *** tools have been developed,including incident analysis,health technology assessment and clinical *** clinical audit consist of measuring a clinical outcome or a process,against welldefined standards set on the principles of evidencebased medicine in order to identify the changes needed to improve the quality of *** particular,patients suffering from chronic renal diseases,present many problems that have been set as topics for clinical audit projects,such as hypertension,anaemia and mineral metabolism *** the results of these studies have been encouraging,demonstrating the effectiveness of audit,overall the present evidence is not clearly in favour of clinical *** findings call attention to the need to further studies to validate this methodology in different operating *** review examines the principle of clinical audit,focusing on experiences performed in nephrology settings.