title: Contracts for improvement. A contractual basis for implementing nursing audit.
abstract: 1. Explicit contracts between partners in care are needed for the effective audit of nursing. 2. Questioning the validity and reliability of audit tools can enhance their use. 3. The pain of change should be seen to be shared by all disciplines. 4. Quality in nursing is a dynamic and developing concept.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haynes
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care