Implementing Change with Clinical Audit

by Baker, Richard W.; Hearnshaw, Hilary M.; Robertson, Noelle

• ISBN13: 9780471982579
• ISBN10: 0471982571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-26
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Clinical audit, the systematic critical analysis of medical care, receives comprehensive and illuminating treatment in this definitive introduction. The authors cover all the knowledge and skills required to implement change in clinical practices based on results of the multiprofessional clinical audit. Discussing various designs for audit projects as well as specific methods of data collection and analysis, the book uses real-world case studies to demonstrate each technique's effectiveness.

Author Biography

Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci, is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Hilary M. Hearnshaw is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.

Noelle Robertson is the editor of Implementing Change with Clinical Audit, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii	(2)
Foreword	ix	(2)
Charles D. Shaw
Preface	xi	(4)
Acknowledgements	xv
Chapter 1 The role of clinical audit in changing performance	1	(20)
Richard Baker
Chapter 2 Evidence and audit	21	(16)
Richard Baker
Chapter 3 A systematic approach to managing change	37	(20)
Noelle Robertson
Chapter 4 Overcoming obstacles to changes	57	(12)
Hilary Hearnshaw
Richard Baker
Chapter 5 Audit and learning	69	(26)
George Brown
Gifford Batstone
Mary Edwards
Chapter 6 Audit across interfaces	95	(24)
M.P. Eccles
M. Deverill
E. McColl
J. Newton
J. Verrill
Chapter 7 Good clinical audit requires teamwork	119	(14)
Celia McCrea
Chapter 8 Implementing change with audit: the role of management	133	(12)
Jonathan Shapiro
Chapter 9 Internal communications and the management of change	145	(22)
Owen Hargie
Dennis Tourish
Chapter 10 Getting the message across -- language, translation, marketing and selling	167	(12)
Rosalind Eve
Paul Hodgkin
Index	179