Quality assurance and the need to evaluate interventions and audit programme outcomes
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Accepted version
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Evidence-based clinical guidelines provide standards for the provision of healthcare. However, these guidelines have been poorly implemented in daily practice. Clinical audit is a quality improvement tool to promote quality of care in daily practice and to improve outcomes through the systematic review of care delivery and implementation of changes.
A major priority in the management of subjects with cardiovascular disease (CVD) management is secondary prevention by controlling cardiovascular risk factors and providing appropriate medical treatment. Clinical audits can be applied to monitor modifiable risk factors and evaluate quality improvements of CVD management in daily practice. Existing clinical audits have provided an overview of the burden of risk factors in subjects with CVD and reflect real-world risk factor recording and management.
However, consistent and representative data from clinic audits are still insufficient to fully monitor quality improvement of CVD management. Data are lacking in particular from low- and middle-income countries, limiting the evaluation of CVD management quality by clinical audit projects in many settings.
To support the development of clinical standards, monitor daily practice performance, and improve quality of care in CVD management at national and international levels, more widespread clinical audits are warranted.
A major priority in the management of subjects with cardiovascular disease (CVD) management is secondary prevention by controlling cardiovascular risk factors and providing appropriate medical treatment. Clinical audits can be applied to monitor modifiable risk factors and evaluate quality improvements of CVD management in daily practice. Existing clinical audits have provided an overview of the burden of risk factors in subjects with CVD and reflect real-world risk factor recording and management.
However, consistent and representative data from clinic audits are still insufficient to fully monitor quality improvement of CVD management. Data are lacking in particular from low- and middle-income countries, limiting the evaluation of CVD management quality by clinical audit projects in many settings.
To support the development of clinical standards, monitor daily practice performance, and improve quality of care in CVD management at national and international levels, more widespread clinical audits are warranted.
Date Issued
2017-06-01
Date Acceptance
2017-03-20
Citation
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, 2017, 24 (3_suppl), pp.123-128
ISSN
2047-4873
Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Start Page
123
End Page
128
Journal / Book Title
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY
Volume
24
Issue
3_suppl
Copyright Statement
© 2017 The European Society of
Cardiology. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in European Journal of Preventive
Cardiology
2017, Vol. 24(3S) 123–128 by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. It is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047487317703829
Cardiology. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in European Journal of Preventive
Cardiology
2017, Vol. 24(3S) 123–128 by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. It is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047487317703829
Sponsor
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - CLRN Funding
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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RDLRN
RDLRN
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Cardiovascular System & Cardiology
Audit
quality assessment
cardiovascular disease
secondary prevention
CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE
RISK-FACTOR MANAGEMENT
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE
LIFE-STYLE
PREVENTION GUIDELINES
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
EUROASPIRE-I
OUTPATIENTS
PREVALENCE
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-06-16