title: Clinical audit: shining a light on good practice.
abstract: Healthcare organisations undertake quality assurance to produce safe and effective patient care systems. Statutory quality assurance requirements are met through external reviews, monitoring and inspection processes, and each NHS trust must produce a corporate annual quality account. However, this can result in approaching audits as if they are 'tick-box activities'. This article discusses how organisations can avoid this trap by applying audit results to practice.
authors.affiliation: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grainger
mesh_terms: D054869:Clinical Audit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054976:Clinical Governance / Q000458:organization & administration; D003142:Communication; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017748:Time Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom