Persuading Hospitals and Clinicians To Undertake and Apply Clinical Audit
While clinical audit makes great sense, there can be an issue around persuading hospitals and clinicians to undertake and apply clinical audit to their everyday work.
In the UK, clinical audit is part of the clinical governance mantra expected of all organisations and workers within the NHS.
Outside of the UK, hospital accreditation schemes, such as the Trent Accreditation Scheme have taken forward audit as a part of clinical governance and promoted its development and execution in places such as Hong Kong and Malta.
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