Clinical Audit in Mental Health

This book fully describes the purpose, methods, and implementation of clinical audit programs in mental health care in order to meet the demands of purchasers, providers, clinicians, carers and patients. It provides a practical guide to implementation in hospital and community settings. Applies well-established models for clinical audit to mental health care. Reflects current trends in quality assurance in health care. Provides detailed, specific advice on assessing the effectiveness of mental health treatment programs.Ein langerwartetes Werk auf einem relativ jungen Gebiet, zu dem es bisher nur sehr wenige Publikationen gibt. Beschrieben wird die Methodik klinischer Audits auf dem psychiatrischen Sektor. Der praxisorientierte Ansatz, dessen Schwerpunkt auf interdisziplinärer Behandlungsplanung liegt, wird durch reale Fallbeispiele illustriert. Audit: An Introduction.

Defining Clinical Audit.

Clinical Audit in Mental Health.

Care Plans and Audit.

Introducing Clinical Audit.

Audit of Care Plans and the Care Programme Approach at Claybury Hospital.

Methods of Audit and Data Collection.

Methods of Audit Data Analysis.

Future Developments.

References.

Appendices.

Index. Aus dem Inhalt:
1. Introduction 2. Key Concepts to Clinical Audit 3. Care Planning and Clinical Audit in Psychiatry 4. Introducing and Implementing the System 5. Audit of an Elderly Psychiatric Admission Unit Using Care Programme Evaluation 6. Implementation Across the Mental Health Unit. 7. Feedback Mechanisms and Organisational Issues 8. Purchaser and Provider Perspectives. 9. Barriers Against Change 10. The Way Forward.

John Riordan is the author of Clinical Audit in Mental Health: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach, published by Wiley.

Dr. Darren Mockler was born in Teesside in a small town, Thornaby-on-Tees, which sits on the southern bank of the River Tees.

Clinical Audit in Mental Health Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach John Riordan Central Psychology Service, Thorpe Combe Hospital, Walthamstow, UK and Darren Mockler Neuropsychology Department, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Clinical audit is central to current health care reforms. Although the concept of audit is now well accepted, the key challenge is its implementation in different specialities. In the field of mental health care a highly collaborative, team-based approach is essential, and audit practice must take into account the activities of the full range of multidisciplinary professional groups in hospital and community settings. The content of this book reflects the growing need to extend the principles of medical audit to encompass clinical audit in order to meet the demands of purchasers, providers, clinicians, carers and patients. An evaluation of key areas of care such as delivery, timeliness and outcome, with an emphasis on quality, is provided. The approach to clinical audit, here, is essentially practical and case-oriented and this book will appeal to a wide audience including psychiatric services managers, consultant psychiatrists, social services care managers and community care teams, and quality assurance professionals.