ReviewWorld journal of nephrology2014
Clinical audit, a valuable tool to improve quality of care: General methodology and applications in nephrology.
Review in World journal of nephrology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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SUMAMOS EXCELENCIA Project: Assessment of Implementation of Best Practices in a National Health System (Second Edition)
SUMAMOS EXCELENCIA Project: Assessment of Implementation of Best Practices in a National Health System (Thrid Edition)
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Abstract
Evaluation and improvement of quality of care provided to the patients are of crucial importance in the daily clinical practice and in the health policy planning and financing. Different tools have been developed, including incident analysis, health technology assessment and clinical audit. The clinical audit consist of measuring a clinical outcome or a process, against well-defined standards set on the principles of evidence-based medicine in order to identify the changes needed to improve the quality of care. In particular, patients suffering from chronic renal diseases, present many problems that have been set as topics for clinical audit projects, such as hypertension, anaemia and mineral metabolism management. Although the results of these studies have been encouraging, demonstrating the effectiveness of audit, overall the present evidence is not clearly in favour of clinical audit. These findings call attention to the need to further studies to validate this methodology in different operating scenarios. This review examines the principle of clinical audit, focusing on experiences performed in nephrology settings.
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