An Age Old Problem: A Review of the Care Received by Elderly Patients Undergoing Surgery: A Report by the National Confidential Enquiry Into Patient Outcome and Death (2010)

This report, published November 11 by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes (NCEPOD), presents data from people over 80 years old who died within 30 days of operations done between April 1 and June 30, 2008. Data for all aspects of care, from admission to death, were gathered by review of 820 case notes and around 2000 questionnaires completed by the doctors involved in the patients' care. Other data on hospital services were gathered from 280 organisational questionnaires. The patients were operated on in all hospitals in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.