Clinical Audit

Journal overview

Clinical Audit is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal focusing on the processes and outcomes of clinical audit in any area of health care. All aspects of patient care are addressed within the journal and practitioners from all disciplines are invited to submit their work.

Clinical Audit will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.

Areas covered include:

Publication of audits – local, national, and international
Changes in practice based on quality management/quality improvement data
How an audit contributes to a body of evidence and fosters changes in practice
Theoretical and practical aspects of clinical audit and relationship to evidence based practice
The relationship of standards of practice or guidelines to clinical audit
Practical tips on how to do audits and to avoid pitfalls
Audit as a tool for measuring clinical outcomes
How audits have changed patient care
Clinical audit and the differences from basic research
Calls and justifications for new audits

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