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A trainee's view of basic issues in audit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alastair Cook  and
Arturo Langa
Alastair Cook*
Affiliation:
Lynebank Hospital
Arturo Langa
Affiliation:
Lynebank Hospital, Halbeath Road, Dunfermline, KY11 4UW
*
∗ Correspondence
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Abstract

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The evaluation of medical practice dates back many centuries. However, the concept of systematic medical audit is relatively modern. It is recognised that audit of every area of health services (including that of trainee's work and training) has been taking place. This article briefly discusses some of the basic issues in audit, which include the principles, levels and types of audit, from a trainee's point of view.

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Audit
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 477 - 479
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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

Footnotes

∗

Dr Cook is Trainee Representative on the Special Committee for Audit and Information Technology. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors themselves.

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