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