Differentiating between research, audit and quality improvement: governance implications
- yemenalazzani
- Dec 26, 2020
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Updated: Mar 18
Sarah L. Hill, Neil Small
In the context of changes in the priority given to ensuring that health care is evidence‐based, and that service quality should be maximised, there is a new emphasis on quality improvement programmes in the UK National Health Service (NHS). It is not clear how far these programmes can be categorised using the paradigms of research and audit. Making a distinction between what constitutes audit, quality improvement and research is important in the context of enhanced clinical and research governance requirements and in an environment of both sensitivity in relation to the ethics of research and concern about the efficacy of ethics committees. This study aims to address this issue.
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Clinical Governance: An International Journal ISSN: 1477-7274 Publication Date: 1 April 2006
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