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Clinical audit — a proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brian Ferguson
Brian Ferguson*
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Clinical Research Department, Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham NG3 6AA
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The best form of psychiatric audit would probably entail carrying out detailed structured interviews of mental state throughout treatment programmes in order to measure clinical effectiveness. In practice this is clearly impossible for busy routine services and will probably be confined to research initiatives. A number of units have attempted to carry out clinical audits subjectively but that clearly has the limitation of bias.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 275 - 277
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