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Perioperative risk assessment
Katherine James 1
Affiliation
Article Info
1 Department of Anaesthetics, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Correspondence to: Katherine James; Katherinejames1@nhs.net
Abstract
Perioperative risk assessment refers to estimating a patient's risk of adverse outcomes in the perioperative period.