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Lithium audit in the Scottish Borders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John R. Taylor  and
Ian G. Dewar
John R. Taylor*
Affiliation:
Dingleton Hospital Melrose, Borders Region TD6 9HN
Ian G. Dewar
Affiliation:
Dingleton Hospital
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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This paper describes the process of lithium audit at Dingleton Hospital, showing that improvements in clinical practice can be achieved and maintained by implementation of the audit cycle. Even our small audit involved all of the medical staff and several other professional groups and we found this multidisciplinary approach encouraged change.

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Audit
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 10 , October 1994 , pp. 620 - 621
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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.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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