Editorial
Responding to the requirements of the National Service Framework for coronary disease: a core data set for myocardial infarction
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Clinical
audit
the systematic assessment and improvement of the quality of
careis now an essential requirement of all clinicians by the
government. Clinical audit of the process of myocardial infarction has
been performed both in this country and elsewhere for several
years,1-3 although the majority of work is performed within individual hospitals rather than in collaboration with colleagues in other hospitals. It has tended to concentrate on the use
of thrombolytic treatment. Recent evidence from 15 hospitals examined
between 1993 and 1997 showed only patchy improvement in delays from a
call for help to treatment. Some hospitals where there were long delays
before thrombolytic treatment showed no improvement over that
time.4 It was clear from these data that in some hospitals
either the incentive or the facilities to improve performance, at least
in this area, was lacking.
The National Service Framework for Coronary Heart
Disease,5 has been compiled with advice from cardiologists
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