Devising a multidisciplinary audit tool.
Discusses the audit processes in health care from the existing perspectives and argues the need to extend the current unidimensional approaches which include medical, clinical and managerial quality. Argues that one way of expanding these approaches is to develop an audit instrument based on the views of service users. The implementation of audit has been a process with regional variations, which have created centres of excellence and centres where there is very little happening. Considers elements that are involved in devising an audit tool which is based on customers' perceptions of service quality, and reports on an empirical study which is still in progress and which aims to develop a tool which is effective, efficient and based on patients' views.
Rochford Hospital, UK.
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D000368:Aged; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D017144:Focus Groups; D006302:Health Services Research; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom