Implementing Change with Clinical Audit - Softcover

Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471982571 ISBN 13: 9780471982579

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1999

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Clinical audit, the systematic critical analysis of medical care, receives comprehensive and illuminating treatment in this definitive introduction. The authors cover all the knowledge and skills required to implement change in clinical practices based on results of the multiprofessional clinical audit. Discussing various designs for audit projects as well as specific methods of data collection and analysis, the book uses real-world case studies to demonstrate each technique's effectiveness.

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Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci, is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands. Hilary M. Hearnshaw is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley. Noelle Robertson is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.

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Throughout the developed world, clinical audit has played a pivotal role in improving the quality of health care. This volume provides both valuable information and practical suggestions about how clinical audit can be used to implement change and sets them in context with case studies. In doing this, it:

• Introduces a systematic approach for implementing change in audit
• Explores the similarities between audit and learning
• Discusses multidisciplinary audit between primary and secondary care
• Draws on behavioural and organisational factors
• Describes the practical use of marketing techniques

Implementing Change with Clinical Audit is essential reading for all audit staff, health care managers, policy makers and staff involved in clinical governance, and practising clinicians.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471982571
• ISBN 13: 9780471982579
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar