Criteria audit can be referred as a quality enhancement cycle comprising capacity of the efficiency of healthcare towards decided and demonstrated standards for high quality, and organizing action to carry out practice in line with standards in order to advance the quality of patient care and health results (HQIP, January 2011). Audits form part of the clinical authority, providing a means used for assessing whether patients are getting the best eminence of care. Audit along with peer review are significant strategies in maintaining standards in surgical care. Surgical audit is a systematic, critical analysis of the quality of surgical care that is reviewed by peers against explicit criteria or recognized standards, and then used to further inform and improve surgical practice with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of care for patients. Present report will examine both the nature of a criteria audit and how it is usually applied in health services. The report also considers how criteria audits are being increasingly used in surgical procedures. Finally, it will focus on the case of cholecystectomies which is a common treatment of symptomatic gallstones and other gallbladder conditions (Goldman, Lee 2011). In this report there is a discussion on some important points which have used criteria audits to assess surgery. At the end of the report results of criteria audit, discussion of results and recommendations are outline which proved to be helpful for further improvement in this surgery.
Present study of criteria audits in cholecystectomy was carried out in Curtin hospital in southern hemisphere, will discuss the scope of the use of criteria audits in these surgeries. Current investigation represents an account of criteria audit practice in cholecystectomy and also outlines the recommendations for further enhancement in this surgical procedure.
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