Implementing Change with Clinical Audit

Throughout the developed world, clinical audit has played a pivotal role in improving the quality of health care. This volume provides both valuable information and practical suggestions about how clinical audit can be used to implement change and sets them in context with case studies. In doing this, it:Introduces a systematic approach for implementing change in auditExplores the similarities between audit and learningDiscusses multidisciplinary audit between primary and secondary careDraws on behavioural and organisational factorsDescribes the practical use of marketing techniquesImplementing Change with Clinical Audit is essential reading for all audit staff, health care managers, policy makers and staff involved in clinical governance, and practising clinicians.

Spis treści:
The Role of Clinical Audit in Changing Performance (R. Baker).
Evidence and Audit (R. Baker).
A Systematic Approach to Managing Change (N. Robertson).
Overcoming Obstacles to Changes (H. Hearnshaw & R. Baker).
Audit and Learning (G. Brown, et al.).
Audit Across Interfaces (M. Eccles, et al.).
Good Clinical Audit Requires Teamwork (C. McCrea).
Implementing Change with Audit: The Role of Management (J. Shapiro).
Internal Communications and the Management of Change (O. Hargie & D. Tourish).
Getting the Message Across –
Language, Translation, Marketing and Selling (R. Eve & P. Hodgkin).
Index.

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Throughout the developed world, clinical audit has played a pivotal role in improving the quality of health care. This volume provides both valuable information and practical suggestions about how clinical audit can be used to implement change and sets them in context with case studies. In doing this, it:Introduces a systematic approach for implementing change in auditExplores the similarities between audit and learningDiscusses multidisciplinary audit between primary and secondary careDraws on behavioural and organisational factorsDescribes the practical use of marketing techniquesImplementing Change with Clinical Audit is essential reading for all audit staff, health care managers, policy makers and staff involved in clinical governance, and practising clinicians.