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.
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The study, published in JAMA Surgery by a team from the University of Michigan and Brigham and Women's Hospital, tested a program designed to reduce unneeded preoperative tests at U-M Health. The new study shows that during the time when U-M Health reduced unnecessary testing and overall testing, the use of the same tests in similar patients stayed the same at dozens of other hospitals in the state.
More about the study The study involved 1,143 patients with an average age of 58 seen at U-M Health's three preop clinics for outpatient surgery sites from June 2022 to the end of August 2023. The tests in question were selected because years of research and recommendations from national and international health care quality groups have deemed them unnecessary for certain patients. Blood tests called complete blood cell counts , basic metabolic panels and comprehensive metabolic panels were targeted, as were electrocardiograms.
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