Improving the preoperative assessment clinic

Thesis

Cover

Title page

Contents

Chapter 1: General Introduction

Chapter 2: Comparing the organisational structure of the preoperative assessment clinic at eight university hospitals

Chapter 3: Patient flow in the preoperative assessment clinic

Chapter 4: Simulation to analyse planning difficulties at the preoperative assessment clinic

Chapter 5: The Patient Experiences with the Preoperative Assessment Clinic (PEPAC) : validation of an instrument to measure patient experiences

Chapter 6: Setting priorities for improving the Preoperative Assessment Clinic : the patients' and the professionals' perspective

Chapter 7: The effects of implementing a new schedule at the Preoperative Assessment Clinic

Chapter 8: Summary & general discussion

Dutch summary

Appendix : PEPAC questionnaire

Acknowledgements