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Doctors under the microscope: the birth of medical audit Jackson, William J., Paterson, Audrey S., Pong, Christopher K. M. and Scarparo, Simona 2013, Doctors under the microscope: the birth of medical audit, Accounting history review, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 23-47. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Doctors under the microscope: the birth of medical audit Author(s) Jackson, William J. Paterson, Audrey S. Pong, Christopher K. M. Scarparo, Simona Journal name Accounting history review Volume number 23 Issue number 1 Start page 23 End page 47 Total pages 25 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, England Publication date 2013 ISSN 2155-2851 2155-286X Keyword(s) medical audit professional accounting quality of care end results Summary In 1989 a UK government White Paper introduced medical audit as a comprehensive and statutory system of assessment and improvement in quality of care in hospitals. A considerable body of research has described the evolution of medical audit in terms of a struggle between doctors and National Health Service managers over control of quality assurance. In this paper we examine the emergence of medical audit from 1910 to the early 1950s, with a particular focus on the pioneering work of the American surgeons Codman, MacEachern and Ponton. It is contended that medical professionals initially created medical audit in order to articulate a suitable methodology for assessing individual and organisational performance. Rather than a means of protecting the medical profession from public scrutiny, medical auditing was conceived and operationalised as a managerial tool for fostering the active engagement of senior hospital managers and discharging public accountability. These early debates reveal how accounting was implicated in the development of a system for monitoring and improving the work of medical professionals, advancing the quality of hospital care, and was advocated in ways, which included rather than excluded managers. Language eng Field of Research 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30060456 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Graduate School of Business Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Feb 2014, 09:43:23 EST Fri, 14 Feb 2014, 11:02:36 EST Fri, 14 Feb 2014, 14:33:57 EST Wed, 19 Feb 2014, 10:41:29 EST Wed, 19 Feb 2014, 10:43:28 EST Wed, 19 Feb 2014, 10:49:21 EST Wed, 19 Feb 2014, 14:58:29 EST Wed, 19 Feb 2014, 14:59:40 EST Mon, 17 Mar 2014, 13:27:31 EST Fri, 21 Mar 2014, 14:25:06 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 31 Abstract Views, 6 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Feb 2014, 09:43:11 EST by Katrina Fleming

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