TY - BOOK AU - Barnard, Sue AU - Hartigan, Gayle TI - Clinical audit in physiotherapy: from theory into practice SN - 075063779X PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Butterworth-Heinemann KW - MEDICAL AUDIT, methods KW - PHYSICAL THERAPY, organization and administration N1 - Part 1 Development of clinical audit in healthcare: introduction of clinical audit within the National Health Service; evolution of clinical audit; defining clinical audit; basic requirements for clinical audit in physiotherapy; clinical audit methods; completing the audit cycle. Part 2 Integrating clinical audit into physiotherapy practice: from theory into practice; making audit work; structure audit in physiotherapy; process audit in physiotherapy; outcome measurement; outcome audit in physiotherapy; role of the physiotherapist in multiprofessional audit; moving towards interface and inter-agency audit; involving patients, carers and their representatives in clinical audit; looking toward the future N2 - Paperback; This text on clinical audit in physiotherapy has three main themes: why is it necessary?; what does it mean in practice?; and how do we get started? The examples relate clinical audit to the real world of the clinic, giving practitioners the confidence to implement their own schemes ER -