Perioperative anesthetic documentation: Adherence to current Australian guidelines

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Perioperative anesthetic documentation: Adherence to current Australian guidelines

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Purpose: The lack of adequate perioperative documentation has legal implications and can potentially affect the quality and safety of patient care. Despite the presence of guidelines, the adequacy of perioperative documentation in Australasia has not been adequately assessed. The aim of this study is to assess the adequacy of anesthetic documentation on the pre and intraoperative encounters and to test the hypotheses that documentation is incomplete in the settings of emergency vs. elective p...

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Date created

2013-01-01

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Islam Elhalawani / Simon Jenkins / Nicole Newman

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Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology

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http://www.joacp.org/article.asp?issn=0970-9185;year=2013;volume=29;issue=2;spage=211;epage=215;a...

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Anesthesia / documentation / electronic / emergency / regional / Anesthesiology / Pharmacy and materia medica

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