Interface flow process audit: using the patient's career as a tracer of quality of care and of system organisation
International Journal of Integrated CarePublished 19 May 2004Open access
Jean‐Pierre Unger, Bruno Marchal, Sylvie Dugas, Marie-Jeanne Wuidar, Daniel Burdet, Pierre Leemans
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The interface flow process audit appears a useful method for regular in-service self-evaluation and its practice enabled to address a wide scope of clinical, managerial and economical problems.
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The interface flow process audit appears a useful method for regular in-service self-evaluation. Its practice enabled to address a wide scope of clinical, managerial and economical problems. Bridging the primary-secondary care gap, interface flow process audit's focus on the patient's career combined with the broad scope of problems that can be analysed are particularly powerful features. The methodology would benefit from an evaluation of its practice on larger scale.
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