Preoperative testing before low-risk surgical procedures

CMAJ

Volumn 187, Issue 11, 2015, Pages E349-E358

  Kirkham, Kyle R ^a,b   Wijeysundera, Duminda N ^a,c,d   Pendrith, Ciara ^b   Ng, Ryan ^e   Tu, Jack V ^d,e,f   Laupacis, Andreas ^c,d,e   Schull, Michael J ^a,d,e,g   Levinson, Wendy ^a,d   Bhatia, R Sacha ^a,b,e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ONTARIO; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84946712711     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.150174     Document Type: Article

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