Why the study?
Does administering a pre-operative phone questionnaire reduce same day cancellations in elective orthopaedic patients?
Population
228 elective orthopaedic patients at a single centre in the UK.
Comparison
A questionnaire administered by phone the week… vs A previous cohort of elective orthopaedic…
Design
Cohort
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May support pre-op questionnaires to cut cancellations in elective orthopaedics; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.
Does administering a pre-operative phone questionnaire reduce same day cancellations in elective orthopaedic patients?
Administering a pre-operative phone questionnaire significantly reduces same day cancellations and associated financial losses in elective orthopaedic surgery.
Singhal et al. (2014) studied this question.
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