Immediate outcome indicators for Preoperative Care in the intervention hospital 2009 to 2011.

Immediate outcome indicators from 2009, 2010, 2011. 2009 is the baseline assessment. Significance was tested 2010 (t2) against 2009 (t1), 2011 (t3) against 2010 (t2) and 2011 (t3) against 2009 (t1). Significant improvement is marked with *↑. Significant decline was marked *↓. Confidence interval is given for the differences of overall immediate outcome of the key procedure in 2009, 2010 and 2011.In the control group, the quality of Preoperative Care did significantly decrease over the whole study period (see Table 5). Patients received anaesthetic visits the day before operation in less than 25% over the whole study period (7/32 in 2009, 0/28 in 2010 and 2011).Immediate outcome indicators for Preoperative Care in the intervention hospital 2009 to 2011.