The article advocates POD screening until the fifth postoperative day. Our working group on the prevention of POD would like to add that preoperative delirium screening should be carried out ...

For many patients, getting ready to have surgery means getting their blood drawn, their heart rhythm checked, or having other tests in the weeks leading up to their operation.

By the end of the study, that rate dropped to 14%. Overall testing—the percentage of all patients receiving the four tests before having these operations—dropped from 51% to 27%. At the same time, ...

A prospective intervention study was conducted in the preoperative screening clinic of the TweeSteden hospital in Tilburg and Waalwijk, the Netherlands. The TweeSteden hospital is a 500-bed ...

Overall testing -- the percentage of all patients receiving the four tests before having these operations -- dropped from 51% to 27%. At the same time, preoperative testing didn’t change for ...

The intervention consisted of the addition of a pharmacy technician to the preoperative screening clinic to perform the same tasks as anesthesiologists as related to medication reconciliation.