Volume 2 Number 4 contents

Editorial

Significant event audit: worth bothering about?
J Stead, G Sweeney and R Westcroft 

Invited paper

Clinical governance: making quality count
L J Donaldson

Original articles

Clinical supervision as part of clinical governance: an instrument of oppression or liberation?
A Lipp

Piloting an approach to the indentification of avoidable referrals in a general practice with a high referral rate
R H King and H Bateman

Full cycle audit referrals for carotid Doppler ultrasound
N R Balcombe, P G Ferry, W M Saweirs and R Hancock

A novel approach for implementing evidence-based guidelines in the community: the Appropriate Choices in Dyspepsia Project
D Chan, P Patel, L Booth, D Lee, T H S Dent, F Harris, M Sadler and H Shepherd

Orthopaedic surgeons: a survey of their knowledge of evidence-based practice
I Robert, S Bridgman, S Krikler, H McGowan and R Johanson

Audit of auto-transfusion in total knee replacement as practised in the department of orthopaedics at Burnley General Hospital
N K Jha and S R D'Souza