Outcomes of care for anesthesia services: a pilot study.
This paper describes a pilot study involving 4347 patient abstracts collected by anesthesia providers during the first quarter of 1991 under the auspices of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Descriptive statistics are presented on surgical site, type of provider and utilization of anesthetic agents as well as the prevalence of 87 preexisting conditions and the incidence of 103 adverse events.
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University of Missouri-Columbia 65211.
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000777:Anesthetics; D003625:Data Collection; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States
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