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MEDICAL AUDIT A METHOD OF ASSESSING HOSPITAL EFFICIENCY
Author(s) -
Dugdale A. E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb63361.x
Subject(s) - audit , simple (philosophy) , medical record , medical emergency , medical care , patient care , medical audit , medicine , nursing , business , accounting , surgery , philosophy , epistemology
Medical audit is a method of assessing the standards of patient care by the study of case records. The techniques are simple and not too demanding on the time of skilled medical manpower. The data collected can be used to solve many of the problems concerning patient care which arise in hospitals. Examples of simple projects which can be undertaken in any hospital are given.