The lead author of a new report identifies four ways to promote preoperative assessments by anesthesiologists. The lead author of a new report that found weak preoperative assessments are a primary ...

Objective To determine whether preoperative assessments carried out by appropriately trained nurses are inferior in quality to those carried out by preregistration ...

NAPA, Calif., Dec. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study by The Doctors Company shows that inadequate pre-operation patient assessments are a major factor in medical malpractice suits against ...

The best defense is good offense. This popular football adage can also be appropriated to fit healthcare goals — namely the fact that better and more appropriate preoperative assessments lead to fewer ...

Meticulous surgical technique, as exemplified by total mesorectal excision (TME), has improved survival by reducing local recurrences in patients undergoing resection with curative intent (Heald, 1995 ...

Electronic consultations (e-consults) improve access to specialty care without requiring face-to-face patient visits. We conducted a mixed-methods descriptive study to understand the variability in ...

Ambulatory surgery is a major area of surgical and anesthetic practice, and preoperative clinics are being increasingly used for low-risk surgical procedures. This study investigated the impact of ...

Phase II Study of Alisertib, a Selective Aurora A Kinase Inhibitor, in Relapsed and Refractory Aggressive B- and T-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas Patients underwent protocol high-resolution pelvic MRI.