Starting an audit

The four steps

Creating an audit walks through four steps, and you can go back to any step you have already completed.

1. Purpose. What the audit is for.
2. Standards. The criteria.
3. Add records. The documents to audit.
4. Review. Check it over and start the run.

Writing the purpose

Describe what the audit is meant to establish. This is not just a label: Rhazes uses it to interpret the records and to frame the evidence it presents, so a vague purpose produces vaguer judgements at the edges.

Weak: Antibiotics audit.

Better: Q4 2025 pneumonia treatment compliance audit, evaluating adherence to first-line antibiotic protocols in confirmed community-acquired pneumonia in adults admitted through the medical take.

The second one tells Rhazes the population, the period, the clinical question and the framework. Every one of those helps it judge a borderline record the way you would.

What to have ready

Setting up goes faster if you have already decided:

• The standards you are auditing against, or the guideline you want them pulled out of. See Building standards from a guideline.
• Who is in scope, which becomes your inclusion criteria.
• The records themselves, as PDFs or images.

You can stop and come back

The audit is created as you move through the steps, so a wizard you abandon halfway is not lost work. Pick it up from your audit list.