Sensitivity of a preanaesthesia screening and triage tool in identifying high-risk patients attending the preanaesthesia assessment clinic in a tertiary referral hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa: a diagnostic accuracy study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The use of preoperative triage questionnaires is an innovative way to mitigate the shortage of anaesthesiologists and to identify and refer high-risk patients early for evaluation. This study evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of one such questionnaire in identifying high-risk patients in a Sub-Saharan population.

Design

Diagnostic accuracy study SETTING: The study was conducted in a preanaesthesia assessment clinic in a tertiary referral hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Participants

The study had a sample size of 128, including all patients above the age of 18 scheduled for elective surgery under any modality of anaesthesia other than local anaesthesia presenting to the preanaesthesia clinic. Patients scheduled for cardiac and major non-cardiac surgery and t

SUBMITTER: Misoi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10008346 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature