Publisher's Synopsis
This book studies the different aspects of auditing and quality control within the field of surgery. There has long been a quest for quality control, but it is clear that the recent technological advances within surgery have added to the complexity of our moral and ethical problems.;It begins with a history of audit from antiquity and the Middle Ages through to modern times. It looks at the different reasons for auditing: the theoretical reasons, the ethical and moral reasons and the economic legal reasons. But it does not only look at it from the point of view of the managers and the surgeons, but it also considers auditing from the patients view and it is also concerned with the way in which the surgeons communicate their results to each other.
