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Clinical audit: definition, cycle and distinction from research

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Clinical audit is a quality-improvement process intended to improve patient care and outcomes.
Care is reviewed systematically against set criteria or standards.
The audit cycle begins with an initial needs assessment to determine what requires assessment.
Appropriate standards are then identified; these may derive from national standards, clinical guidelines or departmental comparisons.
Once standards are established, retrospective or prospective data are collected and analysed.
Results are compared with the standards and used to formulate recommendations and implement change.
Re-audit subsequently determines how effectively those recommendations have been implemented.
Research seeks to discover or define the right thing to do; audit determines whether the right thing is being done.
Research findings are intended to be generalisable, whereas audit findings are not necessarily generalisable.
Research is generally stand-alone and may require complex or unique data; audit is cyclical and commonly uses routine clinical data.

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