Quality in health care : QHC
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To investigate the attitudes of general practitioners to medical audit, and any associations between their attitudes and their personal characteristics. ⋯ More effort is needed to convince general practitioners of the value of audit. Without this, attempts to involve other members of the primary care team in multidisciplinary clinical audit are unlikely to be effective. Successful audits that are shown to be cost effective as well as leading to improvements in patient care should be publicised and replicated. A higher proportion of resources should be devoted to audit.