Conducting an audit can be a daunting task. If it’s a new topic, a new team member, or just something you haven’t done in a while, getting started can be the first big hurdle. Dental Audit simplifies the whole process helping you do audits effectively and efficiently.
Audit Design
Without a specialist audit tool firstly you have to find a topic, decide what data you’re collecting, and then go through the plan with your team. You have to make a form, download a template, print off or make sure it’s installed on everyone’s computer.
With Dental Audit just click “New Audit” and select one of our pre-built templates on nearly 30 different topics relevant to dental practice. The audit is instantly accessible to anyone you’ve assigned, and everyone sees the latest version just by logging in on their web browser. If what we’ve got doesn’t quite hit the mark, you can use our audit builder to tweak an existing audit or create a completely new one.
Data Collection
Lots of practices print off forms for data collection, filling in the information by hand. Questions can get missed, and paper can end of up all over the place. Some practices install spreadsheet or document software and complete the information electronically, but ultimately it’s the same manual data recording and processing.
Dental Audit provides collaborative data collection, allowing everyone to work on the audit at once. It simply slots new data in ensuring that it’s always in one place and up to date. Moving between devices is a breeze – fully responsive you can complete your audits on a computer, tablet, or even mobile phone.
Results Analysis
If you use paper based methods once you’ve finished collecting the data you need to tot up the numbers in every column, work out percentages, look at whether the standard was met or not. Then trying to analyse further requires totalling information selectively to work out the rates for individuals, or types of case.
Dental Audit presents results instantly allowing you to focus on what’s important
In Dental Audit on completion of the audit the data is instantly presented as tables and charts. Percentages are worked out for you and presented in an easy to read format. Want to identify the cause of a trend? Using our filter views you can dynamically add different data slices such as quality rating by radiograph type or clinician. This allows you to immediately find the areas that need attention.
Sharing Results
Writing up an audit can be time consuming, putting it in a format that’s easy to share so everyone can work on improvements takes spreadsheet chart skills, document layout skills, and most importantly valuable time.
Dental Audit pre-populates a results section, prompts you for a discussion and action plan from the data you can see. Scored compliance audits also come with recommended actions to help. The full report is downloadable as a PDF and can easily be shared by email, or at your next staff meeting.
Comparing Results
When it comes time to audit again, it’s important to compare the results with the previous audit. Find out if your action plan worked, or if your standards are being maintained. This involves lots of looking at numbers across multiple audits, which takes time and can easily lead to errors.
Dental Audit allows you to compare your results instantly with up to five previous audits. Plotting the comparisons allows you to discuss the effectiveness of improvements, and identify areas that still need to work. It helps the practice demonstrate progress over time, or the maintenance of high standards.