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 …

Objective The aim of the audits was to assess contemporary performance, with comparison
of the same against previous outcomes, to gauge trends in clinical practice. This allowed for …

Complete documentation in anaesthetic records is important for patient management,
research and quality assurance and has medicolegal implications. This study compares the …

Introduction Performing preanesthetic evaluation, documenting and keeping readily
accessible record are responsibilities of anesthetists. Documentation can improve overall …

Background Underreporting of intraoperative events in anaesthesia is well-known and
compromises quality documentation. The reasons for such omissions remain unclear. We …

Background: The anaesthetic preoperative evaluation of a patient is the clinical foundation
of perioperative patient management, and can potentially reduce operative morbidity and …

Background. Pre‐anaesthetic evaluation is a fundamental component of anaesthetic
practice. The aims of the present study were to assess the quality of the preoperative …

BACKGROUND: Studies of the accuracy and completeness of handwritten anesthesia
records demonstrate deficiencies in documentation, suggesting that the quality of …

The pre‐operative anaesthetic records of 195 patients were analysed for the presence of 12
agreed core items of pre‐operative assessment. This study showed that anaesthetists …

To assess the quality of operative note keeping and compare the results with the Royal
College of Surgeons (RCS) of England guidelines 'Good Surgical Practice'as the gold …