Setting up a district audit programme.

Abstract

A district resuscitation policy to prevent over- zealous resuscitation * Improving communications with general practi- tioners * Standardisation of good clinical practice, including the production of work manuals for junior staff * Producing an early discharge summary * How to ensure that information given to patients and their relatives about their illness is recorded * The legibility of hospital notes and doctors' signa- tures * How to improve the quality of the hospital notes * How to avoid inappropriate outpatient referrals * How to reduce excessive hospital stay * How to promote day surgery * Mechanisms for correcting deficiencies disclosed by the audit process and their reappraisal after correction