title: Inpatient audit simplified.
abstract: One hospital's audit program identifies the necessary procedures for selecting criteria, performing audits, and conducting follow-up and shows how they can be accomplished most effectively and efficiently. In addition, it shows that a useful emergency department/outpatient audit can be conducted using data from telephone follow-up for the patients.
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004363:Drug Utilization; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014589:Utah; D014600:Utilization Review
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents