Positive or Negative 1. Audit helps disseminate examples of good practice. The process of audit will interfere with clinical freedom. Teamwork will improve as a result of audit. Audit is likely to jeopardise clinical confidentiality.
Audit is a rather secretive activity.
Audit will help clinicians to use their expertise more effectively. Audit will improve the quality of patient care. Audit does not appear to be a value for money exercise. Doctors are now more interested in patients' perception of care than they were prior to the introduction of audit. Dr Kedar Nath Dwivedi MBBS, MD, DPM ,FRCPsych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Northampton.