Cargando…

Exploration of a quality improvement process to standardised preoperative tests for a surgical procedure to reduce waste

BACKGROUND: Preoperative tests are done to determine a patient’s fitness for anaesthesia and surgery. LOCAL PROBLEM: Although routine tests before surgery in the absence of specific clinical indications are not recommended, we observed high volumes of routine preoperative tests were performed in our...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shahid, Rabia, Chaya, Malone, Lutz, Ian, Taylor, Brian, Xiao, Lily, Groot, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34580084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001570