Improving care for older surgical patients

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Authors:
Jason Cross
Date Published:
01 October 2012
Last updated: 
02 October 2012

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) (2010) report An Age Old Problem found that just one third of older patients undergoing surgery received good care.

This is a Practice Question published with the kind permission of the Royal College of Nursing