Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:41:07.711Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Audit in two acute psychiatric units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Dutta ,
R. R. Parker  and
T. W. Fleet
A. Dutta
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, Prescot, Merseyside L35 4PQ
R. R. Parker
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, Prescot, Merseyside L35 4PQ
T. W. Fleet
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, Prescot, Merseyside L35 4PQ
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1989) has recently produced its own preliminary report on medical audit. It defines medical audit as: “The systematic, critical analysis of the quality of medical care, including the procedures used for diagnosis and treatment, the use of resources and the resulting outcome and quality of life for the patients.” This definition is in essence similar to that of the Royal College of Physicians.

Type
Audit in Practice
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 351 - 352
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

References

Creed, F. et al (1990) Randomised controlled trial of day patient versus in-patient psychiatric treatment. British Medical Journal, 300, 1033–1037.Google Scholar
Garden, G. (1989) Audit in psychiatry. Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 278–281.Google Scholar
Shaw, C. D. & Costain, D. W. (1989) Guidelines for medical audit: seven principles. British Medical Journal, 299, 498–499.Google Scholar
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1989) Preliminary Report on Medical Audit. Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 557–580.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.