write an audit proposal that relates to the assessment of any group of patients with a specific condition or undergoing any medical procedure.

AUDIT PROPOSAL
Back ground
“Clinical audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria…Where indicated, changes are implemented…and further monitoring is used to confirm improvement in healthcare delivery.” Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit (2002, NICE/CHI) Clinical audit – audit against agreed standards of best practice.
The key messages being that:
1. Clinical audit is not just a data collection exercise:
• It involves measuring current patient care and outcomes against explicit audit criteria (also termed standards).
• There is an expectation from the outset that practice will be improved.
2. Further clinical audit may be required to confirm that practice has improved.
CLINICAL AUDIT & RESEARCH: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? “Research is concerned with discovering the right thing to do; audit with ensuring that it is done right” Smith R. Audit & Research. BMJ 1992; 305: 905-6
http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/files/nhs-ubht/1%20What%20is%20Clinical%20Audit%20v3.pdf
What is required for this assignment?
Thinking about the clinical areas where you have worked as part of your practice placements, you need to write an audit proposal that relates to the assessment of any group of patients with a specific condition or undergoing any medical procedure. For example, patients with asthma, hyperglycaemia, patients undergoing endoscopy, etc.
In this proposal you should simply select the explicit criteria that related to the assessment of a specific condition or medical procedure and compare these criteria to the recommended standards of best practice to check if your team met the required standard or not.
How to structure your proposal:
Because it is a proposal it should be written in the future tense.
Title: Give your audit a precise title that describes what is being audited