This book studies the different aspects of auditing and quality control within the field of surgery. There has long been a quest for quality control, but it is clear that the recent technological advances within surgery have added to the complexity of our moral and ethical problems. It begins with a history of audit from antiquity and the Middle Ages through to modern times. It looks at the different reasons for auditing: the theoretical reasons, the ethical and moral reasons and the economic legal reasons. But it does not only look at it from the point of view of the managers and the surgeons, but it also considers auditing from the patients view and it is also concerned with the way in which the surgeons communicate their results to each other.
This book studies the different aspects of auditing and quality control within the field of surgery. There has long been a quest for quality control, but it is clear that the recent technological advances within surgery have added to the complexity of our moral and ethical problems. It begins with a history of audit from antiquity and the Middle Ages through to modern times. It looks at the different reasons for auditing: the theoretical reasons, the ethical and moral reasons and the economic legal reasons. But it does not only look at it from the point of view of the managers and the surgeons, but it also considers auditing from the patients view and it is also concerned with the way in which the surgeons communicate their results to each other.
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Part 1 History: the history of audit; the evolution of surgical audit. Part 2 Audit of structure and process: economic audit - reducing hospital stay; - diagnosis related groups and performance indicators; the containment of costs in surgery; the containment of cost of health care in the USA; recording, retrieval and analysis of clinical data. Part 3 Audit of outcome: an example from the SENIC program; random control trials; confidential enquiry into perioperative deaths; quality of life after surgery; measures to encourage professional competence. Part 4 Audit of patient satisfaction: waiting for hospital treatment. Part 5 Audit of ethics: the sanctity of life; clinical surgery; human experimentation. Part 6 Audit of publications - peer review of papers submitted to scientific journals; audit of surgical publications.
