hi Sana ,

clinical audit is systematic assess of quality of healthcare either by procedures used for diagnosis and treatment ,care plan,outcome ,quality of life for patients.

1st step -selection of topic or issues ,then purpose of audit ,criteria for measuring outcome of care plan,

2-Data collection -manual data or electronic ,here ethical should be considered for the staff or patient confidentiality

3-comparing the methods -data collection can be compared with criteria or standard

4-outcomes -action plan for any recommendations for change

5- Re-audit - any changes implemented

regards

Anu

Hello,

Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria…Where indicated, changes are implemented…and further monitoring is used to confirm improvement in healthcare delivery.”

Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit (2002, NICE/CHI)

1. Clinical audit is not just a data collection exercise: • It involves measuring current patient care and outcomes against explicit audit criteria (also termed standards). • There is an expectation from the outset that practice will be improved.

2. Further clinical audit may be required to confirm that practice has improved. The main stages of the clinical audit process are:

1) Selecting a topic.

2) Agreeing standards of best practice (audit criteria).

3) Collecting data.

4) Analysing data against standards.

5) Feeding back results.

6) Discussing possible changes.

7) Implementing agreed changes.

8) Allowing time for changes to embed before re-auditing.

9) Collecting a second set of data.

10) Analysing the re-audit data.

11) Feeding back the re-audit results.

12) Discussing whether practice has improved

Some of the topics were below:

https://www.gp-training.net/training/tutorials/management/audit/audlist.htm

Further reading will be useful

1. http://cures.cardiff.ac.uk/files/2014/10/NSAMR-Audit.pdf

2. http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/files/nhs-ubht/1%20What%20is%20Clinical%20Audit%20v3.pdf

3. https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=audit+topics

I hope it will help

Regards

Mehul

Thank you very much for detailed answers @Mehul Kumar & @Anu Deenadayalu