Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on January 11, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(3):269-270; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh527
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Rheumatology Vol. 44 No. 3 © British Society for Rheumatology 2005; all rights reserved
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The BSR Standards Guidelines and Audit Working Group (SGAWG)
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, Rheumatology & AMAU, Liverpool, UK. E-mail: TomDken@hotmail.com
Chair of SGAWG on behalf of the Working Group, which is a subcommittee of BSR's Clinical Affairs Committee.
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Following the success of the report by the working party of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) on guidelines for prescribing TNF-
blockers in adults with rheumatoid arthritis [1], the BSR decided to set up a committee to develop further standards and guidelines. The NHS, through a variety of bodies, including NICE and the National Service Frameworks, use the vehicle of guidelines and standards to improve the quality of care for patients with a number of different diseases, most noticeably myocardial infarction [2], stroke [3] and diabetes mellitus [4]. Audit is the tool by which
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