Educational potential of medical audit: observations from a study of small groups setting standards.

Achieving health gain through clinical guidelines. I: Developing scientifically valid guidelines.

“…42 This approach has been commonly used to develop guidelines in the United Kingdom. 43 It is free of complex analytical procedures and therefore relatively easy and fast. However, the guidelines are often of poor quality because the lack of explicit consensus method can lead to the group being dominated by forceful personalities or interests.…”

Are we geared up for Medical Audit? – An endeavour for improvement of Quality in Health Care

“…This can be overcomed first by identifying the strengths likes willingness of majority of doctors, competition for quality, defending from Consumer protection act, increased need for accreditation, etc and weaknesses like traditional thinking of doctors, incomplete and inaccurate medical records, egoistic attitudes of faculty, misinterpreting medical audit as fault finding technique, etc 8 . Later strengthening the supporting factors and eliminating weaknesses, by various methods like proper orientation, communication, participation and involvement of the members of the institute and facilitation and support from the management 9,10 . The system should be implemented in a planned manned manner involving every faculty of the institute, in a step wise pattern.…”

How To Do It: Use facilitated case discussions for significant event auditing

“…As we have described, most problems arising during facilitated case discussions are related to the underlying principles of small group dynamics and the facilitation of such groups 11. For collaborative audit to be successful, participants may need to develop skills in group facilitation, which can be acquired only within a group format.…”