Why the study?
Do quality improvement interventions (guidelines, proforma, and investigation calculator) improve the quality of preoperative assessments and their agreement with day-of-surgery anaesthetic assessments?
Population
Patients assessed for elective colorectal and hepatobiliary procedures at Leicester General Hospital, England.
Comparison
Implementation of three quality improvement… vs Pre-intervention baseline cohort.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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May support local QI bundles for preoperative compliance; leaves open confirmation via randomized trials.
Do quality improvement interventions (guidelines, proforma, and investigation calculator) improve the quality of preoperative assessments and their agreement with day-of-surgery anaesthetic assessments?
Simple quality improvement interventions including guidelines, a proforma, and an investigation calculator effectively improved the quality of preoperative assessments by junior doctors.
Koris et al. (2015) studied this question.
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