Elimination of preoperative testing in ambulatory surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 467-475

  Chung, Frances ^a   Yuan, Hongbo ^a   Yin, Ling ^a   Vairavanathan, Santhira ^a   Wong, David T ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59649087323     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318176bc19     Document Type: Article

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