title: Communication as a method of medical audit.
abstract: Advances in the practice of medicine over the past forty years have rendered informal communication ineffective in setting and maintaining standards of clinical care. In the past five years, four methods in communication have been introduced in the department of surgery at Guy's Hospital: problem-oriented medical records, death-and-complications meetings, unit review meetings, and a clinical information service. It is suggested that these can achieve quality control.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education; D006753:Hospital Records; D006761:Hospitals; D007255:Information Services; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008131:London; D008485:Medical Audit; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis