Abstract:
BACKGROUND:During preanaesthesia evaluation at an outpatient clinic, information is summarized and structured. We aimed to estimate the effectiveness of this process by determining the proportion of patients presenting for surgery who had valid preoperative anaesthesia assessment records, and also the proportion of patients with a record that contained sufficient information. METHODS:This study included all non-cardiac surgery procedures performed in adults in 2006 and 2007 in a university hospital. In each case, we asked the anaesthesiologist actually providing anaesthesia to assess the quality of the preoperative record on an electronic feedback form showing a predefined drop down menu and a free text box. The primary outcome was the proportion of procedures with a valid record (< 6 months old) that also contained sufficient and adequate information to safely provide anaesthesia. Secondly, all predefined remarks were assessed for relevance and the proportion of (relevant) remarks per individual anaesthesiologist was calculated. RESULTS:During the study period, 21 454 procedures were performed. A valid record was available in 20 700 procedures (97%). In 459 (2%) cases, a remark (mostly about not detected comorbidity) was given by the anaesthesia provider, of which 347 (76%) were assessed as 'relevant', resulting in 20 353 (95%) valid records containing sufficient and adequate information. Between individual anaesthesiologists, the percentage remarks ranged from 0.4% to 12.7%. CONCLUSIONS:On entering the operating theatre, 95% of elective surgery patients had a preanaesthesia evaluation record that contained sufficient and adequate information to safely provide anaesthesia. There was large variability in reporting remarks.
journal_name
Br J Anaesthjournal_title
British journal of anaesthesiaauthors
van Klei WA,Peelen LM,Kruijswijk JE,van Wolfswinkel Ldoi
10.1093/bja/aeq200subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-11-01 00:00:00pages
620-6issue
5eissn
0007-0912issn
1471-6771pii
S0007-0912(17)33440-2journal_volume
105pub_type
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