dignified care
Audit is a crucial component of improvements to the quality of patient care. Clinical audits are undertaken to
help ensure that patients can be given safe, reliable and dignified care, and to encourage them to self-direct their
recovery. Such audits are undertaken also to help reduce lengths of patient stay in hospital, readmission rates
and delays in discharge. This article describes the stages of clinical audit and the support required to achieve
organisational core values.