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1Department of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery, Hull Royal Infirmary, Kingston-upon-Hull, HU3 2LZ, UK.
Abstract:
The consultant episode is widely used by health economists as a measure of delivery of care. The clinical notes of 174 consecutive patients undergoing elective orthopaedic procedures were reviewed. Just over half of the cases (89/174, 51%) were patients referred by their general practitioner, but under half of the available operating time (47%) was expended on these patients, the remainder being on patients already within the system. Under standard NHS accounting, these latter patients are not registered as new consultant referrals and, thus, the episodes of patient care of which their operation is a part, do not constitute finished consultant episodes. Our view is that the episode of care is an inappropriate measure of health care delivery applied to orthopaedic surgery in general.
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