title: The use of medical audit for producing guidelines of medical practice.
abstract: To demonstrate that Medical Audit can be used to produce guidelines for medical practice in an endeavour to ensure quality of medical care. The North Western Urological Audit Group meet regularly six monthly to audit their urological practice. Guidelines are drawn up taking in to account the recent published literature. Several adopted guidelines are presented together with three internationally suggested recommendations. The new competitive market for health care in the United Kingdom has necessitated the initiation of medical audit. Medical Audit has been used by the North Western Urological Audit Group to produce guidelines for medical practice to ensure quality of medical care. Medical Audit can be used to produce guidelines of medical care and ensure quality and uniformity of medical care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Burnley General Hospital, Lancashire, England.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McGeorge
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy