title: Auditing the quality of care of a crisis center.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it defines and describes different types of audits and areas of patient care which lend themselves to a quality of performance review. Second, it describes an audit application at a hospital-based crisis intervention center and the corrective action taken on the basis of the findings. The major emphasis of the  audit was to determine the quality of medical-psychiatric consultation and to develop criteria for its initiation.
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000379:methods; D008499:Medical Records; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D012017:Referral and Consultation