Audit

Audits - Ideas for Trainees

The BRS junior committee have compiled some suggestions for local quality improvement projects/audits that you or other junior doctors may want to undertake in their local ENT departments.

1. Consent for rhinological procedures: FESS, Septoplasty, Septorhinoplasty

Relevant guidance: ENTUK

2. Management of nasal trauma and time window prior to manipulation under anaesthesia.

Relevant guidance: ENTUK

3. Antibiotic prescribing in acute rhinosinusitis

Relevant guidance: NICE (NG79)

4. The management of patients with idiopathic epistaxis

Relevant guidance: ENTUK

5. The management of patients with orbital cellulitis

Relevant guidance: ENTUK

6. Assessment of the Post-Nasal Space in patients with a unilateral middle ear effusion.

Standard: all patients with a unilateral middle ear effusion should have an examination of the PNS.

7. Number of patients booked for trainees to see in outpatient clinics

Relevant guidance: ENTUK