TY - JOUR T1 - Clinical audit: Still an important tool for improving healthcare JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 83 LP - 88 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305194 VL - 100 IS - 2 AU - James Y Paton AU - Rita Ranmal AU - Jan Dudley AU - on behalf of RCPCH Clinical Standards Committee Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/100/2/83.abstract N2 - The use of data to challenge and improve healthcare has a long and distinguished history but has often failed to bring about expected improvements. It has never become fully embedded in clinical practice, probably because data alone are insufficient to drive change. There is now a greater appreciation that changing and improving healthcare requires changing behaviours. Clinical audit remains one of the important tools that can be used to facilitate such change. ER -