Survey study of anesthesiologists' and surgeons' ordering of unnecessary preoperative laboratory tests

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 207-212

  Katz, Robert I ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b   Rosenfeld, Kenneth ^a   Wolfe, Laura ^a   Redmond, Valerie ^a,d   Agarwal, Deepti ^a,e   Salik, Irim ^a,f   Goldsteen, Karen ^b   Goodman, Melody ^c   Glass, Peter S A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f St Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CYSTECTOMY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HIP REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALIST; OTOLARYNGOLOGIST; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY TEST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SURGEON; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROIDECTOMY; URINALYSIS; URINE CULTURE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952116208     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31820034f0     Document Type: Article

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