1 Downstate Medical Center—Kings County Hospital, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11203
The involvement of health care providers, whose patient records are to be reviewed, in evolving a set of audit criteria would appear to be an important compliance determinant. And, while its degree of importance remains to be determined, ideally all providers should be involved in creating self-audit criteria.
There is, however, an issue of practical importance that arises when large staffs are to be audited, and particularly when a part of this staff is assigned only temporarily to the outpatient service, e.g., house staff officers or medical students.