The Audit Design Prompt

Design a clinical audit.

Topic: [WHAT YOU WANT TO AUDIT]
Standard: [GUIDELINE OR STANDARD IT WILL BE MEASURED AGAINST]
Setting and scale: [DESCRIBE]
Resources available: [TIME, PEOPLE]

Produce:
1. The audit question, stated precisely
2. Measurable criteria drawn from the standard, each with a target
3. Sample: size, selection method, inclusion and exclusion criteria
4. Data collection tool — the actual fields to capture
5. How to collect without identifying patients in the analysis
   dataset
6. Analysis plan
7. How results will be presented
8. Re-audit interval and what would trigger an earlier re-audit
9. The three most likely reasons this audit fails to change
   anything, and how to design against each

Keep the data set as small as possible while still answering the
question.