Author: Zl. Petrova
Title: The role of the National Health Insurance Fund in the policy about the quality of public health: Medical audit in the process of bettering healthcare quality. 3, 2003, No1, 13-17.
Key Words (author's): Medical Audit; Auditing cycle; Indicators for structure, process and results; Sources of information; Fundamental principles of medical audit.
Key Words (MEDLINE): Health services - standards; Quality assurance, health care; Outcome and process assessment, healthcare - organization and administration; Insurance, health; State government; Medical audit - organization and administration; Data collection.
Topic: Studies, Analyses, Reviews
Abstract
Medical Audit is a professionally undertaken initiative which aims to improve medical services quality for patients by: assessment and evaluation of medical services provided by medical providers; comparison of work activities with the set standards; improvement of the medical care delivery. The auditing process includes a certain sequence of activities and events, namely: definition of standards; criteria and aims or protocols for good medical practice whose standards are used for quality comparison; collection of systematic, objective and precise evidence for the provision of medical services; comparison of results with the standards and/ or exemplary levels of provision; individuation of weaknesses and ways for disposing of them; monitoring of the subsequent effects - “closing of the auditing cycle”.
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