title: How audit can improve provision of in-patient pain services.
abstract: Clinical governance makes it necessary for the cycle of clinical audit to be refined, encouraging a continuous process of quality improvement. This is achieved through the monitoring of practice and benchmarking, and supported by continuing practice development. Reliable information is essential if pain services are to be improved in line with patients' needs.
authors.affiliation: James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lawler
mesh_terms: D000698:Analgesia / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009731:Nursing Audit; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards