Quest to Improve Management of Prostate Cancer in West Africa Development of a Clinical Audit Tool

ABSTRACT

In 2010 and during the following decade, two guidelines werepublished for the management of prostate cancer in West Africa.A key recommendation of the guidelines was the need for thedevelopment of a Clinical Audit Tool which should helpsurgeons and institutions to identify the gaps between therecommended standards and current practice. In this paper, aClinical Audit Tool, WAPCAT, was developed to facilitate andimplement the audit process for the management of Prostatecancer in a West African healthcare institution