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nursing audit

A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | 250 words | Copyright

nursing audit n. the process of collecting information from nursing reports and other documented evidence about patient care and assessing the quality of care by the use of quality assurance programmes. See quality assurance, performance indicators.

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