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BJA Advance Access originally published online on June 17, 2005
British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005 95(2):121-123; doi:10.1093/bja/aei166
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EDITORIAL

Editorial II: Audit—using both the good and the bad news to improve patient care

P. Simpson1,* and M. Harmer2

1 President, Royal College of Anaesthetists 2 President, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

* Corresponding author. E-mail: president@rcoa.ac.uk

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Audit has become a familiar part of everyone's clinical practice. Since its introduction into mainstream clinical care, the importance of audit in identifying the current standard of practice and endeavouring to make improvements has become clear, as one looks at an increasing number of areas. Over the years, we have learnt a number of lessons from audit, some of them not entirely welcome. Given the diversity, complexity and variability within modern health care, one thing has become clear: audits that reveal only good news should be viewed with some suspicion. Given the subject, it was perhaps inevitable that the first National Audit conducted by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, reported in this issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia,1 would contain both the good news and the not so good. Its topic, ‘Supervision and responsibility’, was chosen by anaesthetic audit coordinators (ACs) in hospitals throughout the United . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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