Anesthesia; Anesthesia recovery period; Quality assurance, health care;

Anaesthetic clinical indicators in public hospitals providing anaesthetic care in Hong Kong: prospective study Objectives. To assess the quality of anaesthetic services as defined in the six anaesthetic clinical indicators against preset standards and to identify risk factors for adverse events in the recovery room. Design. Prospective study. Setting. All public hospitals providing anaesthetic care in Hong Kong. Patients. Eighteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine patients receiving elective or emergency anaesthesia administered by anaesthetists from June 1998 to July 1998. Main outcome measures. Patient demographics, American Society o