Preoperative Assessment of patients prior to surgery is time consuming, but failure to recognize important comorbidities may increase perioperative risk significantly, and cause last minute cancellations, i.e. a waste of resources .Project Aim:All patients allocated to primary hip replacement at Holbaek Hospital are uniformly scanned for co-morbidities and referred to medical clinic pre-operatively if needed.
Published: 30/06/2017
Publisher: NHS Education for Scotland (NES)
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Audience: General audience