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Development, Functioning, and Effectiveness of a Preoperative Risk Assessment Clinic
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Development, Functioning, and Effectiveness of a Preoperative Risk Assessment Clinic

Hassan Tariq, Rafeeq Ahmed, Salil Kulkarni, Sana Hanif, Omesh Toolsie, Hafsa Abbas and Sridhar Chilimuri
Health services insights, v 9(Suppl. 1), pp 1-7
01 Jan 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4137/HSI.S40540
PMID: 27812286
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Health Care Sciences & Services Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
Lee first described the concept of preoperative assessment testing (PAT) clinic in 1949. An efficiently run clinic is associated with increased cost-effectiveness by lowering preoperative admission time and thus reducing the length of stay and the associated costs. The setup of the PAT clinic should be based on the needs, culture, and resources of the institution. Various models for the setup of PAT clinic have been described, including the concept of a perioperative surgical home, which is a patient-centered model designed to improve health and the delivery of health care and to reduce the cost of care. Although there are several constraints in the development of PAT clinics, with increasing awareness about the usefulness of pre-operative risk assessments, growing bodies of literature, and evidence-based guidelines, these clinics are becoming a medical necessity for the improvement of perioperative care.

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