Finding patient risks in pre-admission forms is one job. Prioritising them is another.
A pre-admission work list shows names, procedures and dates, not which patients highlighted something that needs further investigation before surgery.
And risk isn't one thing. Anticoagulation, an airway concern, poorly controlled diabetes, a cardiac history. Finding them means opening each form. Prioritising them means weighing what's there against how close the admission date is, and the same list in different hands comes out differently.
Then any list is out of date by the time the next form arrives, or tomorrow.

