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Improving quality of care through national clinical audit.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Quality improvement interventions in surgical oncology: systematic review of international studies.BJS open · 2026Pooled it
- Indicators to evaluate quality of care in head and neck cancer in Spain.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical audit as a catalyst for quality improvement in healthcare systems: strategic insights from a systematic review and SWOT-TOWS analysis.BMJ open quality · 2026Article
- Sustainable quality improvement interventions to ensure adequate physician documentation of chaperone presence in breast clinic: a multicycle clinical audit.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026Article
- Measuring performance trajectories in lung cancer surgery: a longitudinal study using the French national hospital database from 2020 to 2024.BMJ health & care informatics · 2026Article
- Improving UK data on avoidable perinatal brain injury: review of data dictionaries and consultation.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Embedding into the ways of working in the NHS: A seamless transition and reflective learning as a clinical observer in general internal medicine.Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
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- How and why do community stakeholders participate in the national stroke audit in England? Findings from a mixed-method online survey.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Heart Failure: A Retrospective Observational Study and Medical Audit.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Clinical audit in European radiology: current status and recommendations for improvement endorsed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR).Insights into imaging · 2023Article
- How do healthcare providers use national audit data for improvement?BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Measures to evaluate quality of care in renal cancer: results of a Delphi study in Spain.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022Article
- An evaluation of short-term outcomes after reoperations for anastomotic leakage in colon cancer patients.International journal of colorectal disease · 2022Observational
- Outliers from national audits: their analysis and use by the Care Quality Commission in quality assurance and regulation of healthcare services in England.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2021Article
- Assessing the Feasibility of Retrospective and Prospective Clinical Audit in Farm Animal Veterinary Practice.Veterinary sciences · 2021Article
- Exploring variation in the use of feedback from national clinical audits: a realist investigation.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- How to improve healthcare improvement-an essay by Mary Dixon-Woods.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Article
- An ethnographic study of improving data collection and completeness in large-scale data exercises.Wellcome open research · 2019Article
- Untapping the potential of medical trainees to improve the quality of healthcare.Future hospital journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
The UK's national health services are unique in having a well established programme of national clinical audits and databases across medical, surgical and mental health conditions. The Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) Clinical Effectivess and Evaluation Unit leads many of the largest and most mature audits in partnership with specialist societies, other colleges, patient groups and academic institutions. In this paper, we shall trace the development of national audit over the last 2 decades, explore the mechanisms by which this has helped improve care and discuss how national clinical audits and databases can best support quality improvement in the NHS of the future.
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