Implementing Change with Clinical Audit
Published on 27. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-471-98257-9 (ISBN)
Description
Clinical audit, the systematic critical analysis of medical care, receives comprehensive and illuminating treatment in this definitive introduction. The authors cover all the knowledge and skills required to implement change in clinical practices based on results of the multiprofessional clinical audit. Discussing various designs for audit projects as well as specific methods of data collection and analysis, the book uses real-world case studies to demonstrate each technique's effectiveness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
42 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-98257-9 (9780471982579)
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Persons
Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci, is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Hilary M. Hearnshaw is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.
Noelle Robertson is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.
Hilary M. Hearnshaw is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.
Noelle Robertson is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.
Content
The role of clinical audit in changing performance; evidence and audit; a systematic approach to managing change; overcoming obstacles to change; audit and learning; audit across interfaces; good clinical audit requires teamwork; implementing change with audit - the role of management; internal communication and the management of change; getting the message across - language, translation, marketing and selling.