Surgical audit is a quality improvement process that involves systematically reviewing surgical care against explicit criteria to improve patient outcomes. It has three key elements: measurement of surgical care quality, comparison of results to standards, and evaluation of outcomes to implement necessary changes. The aims of surgical audit are to identify ways to improve patient care quality, assist in surgeon education, and ensure efficient use of surgical resources. Its advantages include identifying bad practices, reducing unnecessary costs, decreasing hospital stays, allowing treatment refinement, objective quality assessment, better resource allocation, improved education, and legal protection.

1. WELCOME

2. Presented By
Dr. Mansurul Islam
Asst. Reg. SU-II
Department of Surgery, ShSMCH
Surgical Audit

3. What is Audit ?
• The word Audit comes from the Latin word ‘Audire’ which means
‘To Hear’.
• Clinical Audit is a quality improvement process that seeks to improve
patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against
explicit criteria and review of change. (National Institute of Health
and Clinical Excellence of UK- NICE, 2002)

4. Elements of Surgical Audit
1. Measurement : Systemic analysis of the quality of surgical care.
2. Comparison : Comparing results with recognizable standards.
3. Evaluation : Reflect the outcome of audit and bring necessary
change.

6. Aims of Surgical Audit
• To identify ways of improving quality of patient care.
• To assist in the continuing education of surgeons.
• To make sure of maximum use of resources for surgical services.

7. Advantages of Surgical Audit
• Identifies bad practice.
• Reduces unnecessary investigations and medications.
• Decrease length of admission.
• Allows continues refinement of treatment modalities.
• Allows objective assessment of quality of care.
• Improves resource allocation.
• Improves education and training.
• Legal safeguard.