CVD Screening May Benefit Men with ED Findings from a first-of-its-kind study in JAMA Internal Medicine indicate that despite recommendations from professional organizations to limit certain routine ...

HealthDay News — For patients undergoing mid urethral sling surgery, preoperative testing frequently does not adhere to national guidelines, according to a study published in the January issue of The ...

TeamHealth, a leading provider of outsourced physician staffing solutions for hospitals, today announced the launch of PreOpGuide, a free mobile app for clinicians designed to reduce or eliminate ...

Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans. But in many cases, they don’t actually need to have these tests, because the ...

Professional physician associations consider certain routine tests before elective surgery to be of low value and high cost, and have sought to discourage their utilization. Nonetheless, a new ...

A customized, team-based strategy significantly reduced unnecessary pre-operative testing for common elective surgeries, according to a new study led by researchers at Ann Arbor-based Michigan ...

The thinking goes that testing before elective surgery can reduce risks and complications. But, it turns out it may do the opposite.

For many patients, getting ready to have surgery means getting their blood drawn, their heart rhythm checked, or having other ...