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Patient tracer audit guide: patient deterioration systems | He aratohu tātari mō te whai tūroro
4th August, 2023
This guide is for health care professionals rather than the general public. It is available below in MS Word and PDF formats.
It outlines:
- the essential parts of a patient deterioration system for adult, maternity and paediatric (tamariki) patients
- suggested questions to help health professionals complete a ‘tracer audit’. This may be used by health organisations to ensure they are providing safe and reasonable levels of service.
The guide is designed to help hospitals put in place a patient deterioration system and find ways to improve.
It has been developed by the national patient deterioration programme of Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission, which aims to reduce harm from failures to recognise or respond to acute physical deterioration for people in hospital.
