This document provides an overview of clinical audit, including: - Clinical audit aims to systematically review and improve patient care by comparing current practices to standards and research. - It identifies areas for waste reduction, good practice promotion, and stopping bad practices while improving professional practice, outcomes, and releasing funds for better patient care. - Successful clinical audits follow a plan-do-check-act cycle, have clear standards and criteria, measure current performance, validate findings, and make appropriate changes to close the loop through re-evaluation.