Departmental clinical audit: audit, principles and the present status in Pakistan

摘要

During the deliberation of various medical conferences in the country, it is fairly common to listen to the speakers making reference to the foreign data and then remark that reliable local data is not available from Pakistan. However, non-availability of local data may have been true until a few years ago but it does not hold true anymore. Despite the shortcomings, some data on almost every subject is now available and local researchers and investigators are putting their efforts together to document the data in an environment which is evolving to become conducive to research and data collection. To locate this data one has only to look at different sources now readily available in print as well as on the net. One may have to look at non-traditional indexing services to locate this data eg., ExtraMED and Pakmedinet etc.