Making Use of Clinical Audit: A Guide to Practice in the Health Professions Book

	The authors
	Preface
	Glossary
1	What is audit?	1
2	Clinical audit and its relationship to other forms of quality assurance and knowledge generation	21
3	Making a start on clinical audit: cycles and spirals	41
4	The nature of clinical audit and progress made	55
5	The benefits of and constraints on clinical audit	81
6	Clinical audit and managing health systems	106
7	Making audit a workable system	128
	App. 1 Members of the clinical audit advisory group	146
	App. 2 The methods used in the study	148
	App. 3 The development of an audit culture in the four professions	155
	App. 4 A brief review of published audit activities in the four professions	160
	App. 5 The case study sites	165
	References	173
	Index	181