PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - James Y Paton AU - Rita Ranmal AU - Jan Dudley AU - on behalf of RCPCH Clinical Standards Committee TI - Clinical audit: Still an important tool for improving healthcare AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305194 DP - 2015 Apr 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 83--88 VI - 100 IP - 2 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/100/2/83.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/100/2/83.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2015 Apr 01; 100 AB - 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.