Quality assurance in health care : the official journal of the International Society for Quality Assurance in Health Care / ISQA
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Qual Assur Health Care · Jan 1989
ReviewQuality assurance of pre-operative assessment--a review of quality assurance activities related to pre-operative assessment in nine hospitals in The Netherlands.
Pre-operative assessment of patients for surgery is one of the most prevalent topics for quality assurance by peer-review in Dutch hospitals. This article describes the experiences with pre-operative assessment in nine hospitals. ⋯ Hospital protocols are compared with literature findings and audit studies from two hospitals show the actual compliance to the protocols. It is concluded that peer-review committees and audit studies play a major part in the assurance of the quality of preoperative assessment.