Journal of Clinical Effectiveness: Volume 1 Issue 3

Development of an instrument to assess staff perceptions of the impact of trust‐based clinical audit programmes

Joanne Lord, Peter Littlejohns

We have developed and tested a questionnaire to assess staff perceptions of the impact of clinical audit within hospital and community trusts. The aim is to provide a tool for…

Audit of antenatal corticosteroid treatment in the South West

Selena Gray, Jon Brassey, John Richardson, Neil Marlow

A multidistrict audit was conducted in seven hospitals to examine the proportion of preterm births in which antenatal corticosteroids were given. Of the 550 births examined…

New guidelines for management of spontaneous pneumothorax

Linda Gill, Charles Shee

In 1993 the British Thoracic Society (BTS) recommended simple chest aspiration rather than insertion of an intercostal drain in the initial management of spontaneous pneumothorax…

Perceptions of clinical audit: a preliminary evaluation

Andrew Millard

The purpose of this study was to identify the priorities for evaluation and development using the perceptions of a sample of participants in clinical audit in Scotland…

Optimising data collection for orthopaedic audit: a comparison of four techniques

David H. Sochart, Alison J. Long, Kirstie H. Wilson, Martyn L. Porter

The collection of complete and accurate data is an essential prerequisite of any study that aims to produce meaningful results. Much contemporary research in orthopaedic surgery…

Clinical guidelines: involving patients and users of services

Lesley A. Duff, Marcia Kelson, Sarah Marriott, Aileen Mcintosh, Shona Brown, John Cape, Nella Marcus, Michael Traynor

National clinical guidelines can provide a way for health professionals, patients and users of services to work together to make decisions about care. For guidelines to have a…