Clinical Audit

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews and discusses the clinical audit introduced in 1993. According to the paper, the clinical audit is a quality improvement process aimed at improving patient care and outcomes through a systematic review of care according to or against explicit criteria and the implementation of change.

Outline:
Leadership Attribute of Credibility
Leadership Attribute of Influence
Application of Attribute of Influence
Leadership Quality of Communication
Application of the Attribute of Communication
Leadership Strategy of Personal Vision
Application of the Strategy of Personal Vision
Strategy of Interpersonal Leadership
Application of the Strategy of Interpersonal Leadership
Strategy of Emphatic Communication
Application of the Strategy of Communication
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"A leader with personal vision will monitor and supervise the doctors and hospital staff for their public service ethos. He will check out if they are doing what they deem best according to their individual inner light. Clinical experience is no longer sufficient in service delivery today. Regulatory bodies now consider individual competence. Training standards are now inspected to see if they come up to standards. Clinical performance, which includes the number of deaths in the hospital, prompts the head of a clinical audit to immediately seek out complete and updated information on the incidents. He does not tolerate the number of medical errors and near-misses and will come right to the bottom. It may be traced to organizational problems, clinical incompetence or merely bad media publicity by competitors. But he confronts and contends with the true cause or causes of the mishaps."

Sample of Sources Used:

• D'Aprix, R. (1993). The communication gap: business communication. Communication World. 6 pages. International Association of Business Communicators, January 1993
• Farrell, S. (2007). What is clinical audit? Human Resources Services. 6 pages. V2 (2). University of North Carolina Greensboro. Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://hemlock.gmu.edu/packet/influence.pdf
• Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training. (2001). Team communication and conflict. GITT Core Curriculum. 37 pages. Retrieved on January 19, 2007 from http://www.americangeriatrics.org/education/gitt/3_topic.pdf
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• Palmer, C. (2002). Clinical governance: breathing new life into clinical audit. British Journal of Psychiatry. Volume 8, 7 pages. Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi.

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