Two-Year experience of orthopaedic audit in a teaching Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

Obiectives : To implement orthopaedic audit and quality assuranee, and to assess the results after 2 years of implementation.

Design : A prospective audit has been designed and implemented.

A brief "audit on audit” was also performed.

Setting : The department of Orthopaedic Surgery at King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Sutyects : Data was compiled on 961 patients over two years.

Analysis included Demographic details, type of procedure and post-operative outcome.

Results : Points o،‘ interest include the following: the observed age and sex distribution of patients correlated directly with the proportion of beds allocated to the department, the frequency of elective operations increased significantly 51 ٢٠١١١؛% in first year to 68.5 % in second year.

The overall rate of complications decreased over the second year by 51%.

Interpretation and Conclusion : ft is concluded that clinical audit in Orthopaedic Surgery is feasible.

Incomplete and adequate documentation needs to be improved through modification of the computer to store more comparable information with that recorded ١١؛ the ward logbooks.