Using peer audit in health visiting.
South Tees Health Authority is one of 12 pilot sites for quality assurance. Most staff in the community and mental health unit are involved with the setting of professional standards. This article describes health visitors' experience of peer audit, carried out on one of the standards set within their quality assurance standard setting group. The nine health visitors attached to general practices serving Redcar and the surrounding district set professional standards based on Donabedian's structure, process and outcome model. Standards were set in areas such as communication, immunisation, health promotion, and child health clinics.
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D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit; D010380:Peer Review