Background Emergency abdominal surgery is associated with poor patient outcomes. We
studied the effectiveness of a national quality improvement (QI) programme to implement a …

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Abstract Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is being employed in the perioperative
setting to improve outcomes for older surgical patients. Traditionally CGA is delivered by a …

Perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) services are gaining
traction, in acknowledgment of the poorer outcomes experienced by older surgical patients …

Background Acute gallstone disease is the highest volume Emergency General Surgical
presentation in the UK. Recent data indicate wide variations in the quality of care provided …

Background Patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery are exposed to a high risk
of death. A quality improvement (QI) programme to improve the survival for these patients …

Introduction The Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP) is designed to
measure complications after major elective surgery and improve these through feedback of …

In a recent Lancet publication, we reported the findings of a stepped-wedge, cluster
randomised trial of a quality improvement intervention to enhance the outcomes of …

More than 1.53 million adults undergo inpatient surgery in the UK NHS. Patients undergoing
emergency abdominal surgery have a much greater risk of death than patients admitted for …

Recycling old data-an ethical and pragmatic way to generate new evidence? In this issue of
I Anaesthesia, i Ho et al. report data suggesting that, for cardiac surgical patients, platelet …