Increasing numbers of older people are undergoing emergency and elective surgery. This is due to changing demographics, advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques and changing attitudes and expectations of the older population. Furthermore, degenerative, metabolic and neoplastic conditions, for which…
Quality in healthcare is hard to define. One approach is based around six goals: safety; effectiveness; patient focus; timeliness; efficiency; and equity ( Table 18.1 ). Although errors and incidents are commonly discussed in relation to safety, the same fundamental…
Statistics is the science of learning from data – from collection and organisation through to analysis, presentation and dissemination. Like all sciences, it has its own vocabulary and can sometimes appear somewhat impenetrable to the uninitiated. This chapter gives an…
Increasing numbers of older people are undergoing emergency and elective surgery. This is due to changing demographics, advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques and changing attitudes and expectations of the older population. Furthermore, degenerative, metabolic and neoplastic conditions, for which…
Quality in healthcare is hard to define. One approach is based around six goals: safety; effectiveness; patient focus; timeliness; efficiency; and equity ( Table 18.1 ). Although errors and incidents are commonly discussed in relation to safety, the same fundamental…
Statistics is the science of learning from data – from collection and organisation through to analysis, presentation and dissemination. Like all sciences, it has its own vocabulary and can sometimes appear somewhat impenetrable to the uninitiated. This chapter gives an…