TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - Auditing the quality of care of a crisis center JO - Suicide and life-threatening behavior A1 - Ellenson, G. M. A1 - Baxter, J. W. A1 - Stelmachers, Z. T. SP - 18 EP - 31 VL - 8 IS - 1 N2 - The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, it defines and describes different types of audits and areas of patient care which lend themselves to a quality of performance review. Second, it describes an audit application at a hospital-based crisis intervention center and the corrective action taken on the basis of the findings. The major emphasis of the audit was to determine the quality of medical-psychiatric consultation and to develop criteria for its initiation. LA - SN - 0363-0234 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -