Routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is widely viewed as having low value. A new research article indicates that routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is common despite ...

More than half of all Medicare patients who have cataract surgery undergo unnecessary routine preoperative testing, despite strong evidence that these tests are usually not beneficial and increase ...

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...

A retrospective analysis recently showed guidelines for routine preoperative testing have little influence on physician behavior. The most current study collected data from the National Ambulatory and ...

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine, titled “Preoperative Medical Testing in Medicare Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery,” found pre-cataract testing was more “strongly associated with ...

These numbers indicate the increasing strain on the healthcare system as a larger percentage of the population become Medicare beneficiaries in the coming years. Cataract surgery is the most common ...

Man speaking to a doctor in the hospital Hospitalist NPs are key to successfully implementing Society of Hospital Medicine guidelines for preoperative testing and management. The following article is ...

The operating room is a hectic, busy place. One way to make the OR more efficient is to focus on preoperative functions, such as case scheduling accuracy, completing patients’ charts and proactive ...

BOSTON — A team from the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School reduced the volume of preanesthesia testing and cut costs by 47% by applying patient-centered practice guidelines, according to a study ...

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Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...