Kash, Bita A.; Cline, Kayla M.; Timmons, Stephen; … - In: International best practices in health care management, (pp. 161-194). 2015
Purpose Health care institutions in many Western countries have developed preoperative testing and assessment guidelines to improve surgical outcomes and reduce cost of surgical care. The aims of this chapter are to (1) summarize the literature on the effect of preoperative testing on clinical...