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- Title
A clinical audit of the ileo-anal pouch service at St Mark's Hospital.
- Authors
Perry-Woodford, Zarah
- Abstract
Improving the quality of health care requires a range of evidence-based activities, such as clinical audit and feedback (Foy et al, 2005). This incorporates the foundations of clinical governance in supporting staff to deliver safe care of the highest quality. Agencies such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) advance and encourage audit and feedback in order to set guidelines for future practice and development of specific services. Clinical audit was introduced in the NHS in 1993 and is defined as 'a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change' (NICE/CHI, 2002). This article outlines an audit to provide feedback on the current pouch care service, and to revise practice in line with a changing NHS.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MEDICAL audit; RESTORATIVE proctocolectomy; GREAT Britain. National Health Service; NATIONAL Institute for Health &; Care Excellence (Great Britain)
- Publication
Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 2, p36
- ISSN
1479-5248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/gasn.2008.6.2.28807