Why the study?
Does pre-operative assessment by an appropriately trained nurse provide equivalent quality to assessment by a pre-registration house officer in patients awaiting elective surgery?
Does pre-operative assessment by an appropriately trained nurse provide equivalent quality to assessment by a pre-registration house officer in patients awaiting elective surgery?
Appropriately trained nurses provide an acceptable, cost-neutral, and clinically equivalent alternative to pre-registration house officers for routine pre-operative assessments.
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Supports ATNs as equivalent to PRHOs for pre-op assessment with fewer unnecessary tests; extends evidence for nurse-led task-shifting in elective surgery.
Kinley et al. (2001) studied this question.
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