Medical Audit and the Role of the Facilitator

Emerald - Tập 7 Số 3 - Trang 8-10 - 1994
Liz Carroll1, Mike Thirlwall2, Alison Wilson3
1Audit Facilitator, Aylesbury Local Audit Support Team, Buckinghamshire Medical Audit Advisory Group, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK.
2Audit Co‐ordinator, Aylesbury Local Audit Support Team, Buckinghamshire Medical Audit Advisory Group, Aylesbury, Bucks, UK.
3Lecturer in Primary Care Development, Department of General Practice and Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Tóm tắt

Describes how the Buckinghamshire Medical Audit Advisory Group have approached the introduction of medical audit in primary care. Outlines how the original facilitator model, which proved so successful in encouraging initiatives in coronary heart disease prevention, is now being used to encourage and promote quality initiatives using medical audit techniques. Explores use of the audit cycle and emphasizes the importance of teamwork in enabling change to occur. Outlines the special personal and professional skills required to work in the increasingly complex and dynamic arena of primary care, with a description of how the National Facilitator Development Project has taken on board these educational needs.

Tài liệu tham khảo

1. Fullard, E., “Extending the Roles of Practice Nurses and Facilitators in Preventing Heart Disease”, Practitioner, Vol 231, 8 Oct 1987, pp. 1283‐6. 2. Royal College of General Practitioners, “Prevention of Arterial Disease in General Practice”, Report from General Practice, No. 19, 1981. 3. Fullard, E.M., Fowler, G.H. and Gray, J.A.M., “Promoting Prevention in Primary Care: A Controlled Trial of Law Technology Low Cost Approach”, British Medical Journal, Vol. 294, 1987, pp. 1080‐2. 4. Secretary of State for Social Services et al., Promoting Better Health, HMSO, London, 1987. 5. Allsop, J., Changing Primary Care: The Role of Facilitators, Kings Fund Centre, 1990. 6. Oxford Region District Clinical Tutors Committee, The Purpose and Conduct of Medical Audit, July 1990. 7. Department of Health, Medical Audit in the Family Practitioner Services, Health Circulary HC (FP)(90)8, London, 1990.
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Emerald

Tập 7 Số 3

8-10

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