According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

This article is written by Ann O’Neill, director of clinical operations at Regent Surgical Health. This article was originally printed in the Regent Surgical Health newsletter and has been republished ...

Researchers have found in a new study that professional tooth cleaning performed one day before surgery was associated with a ...

A recent study found that sleep quality deteriorated in patients whose pain levels increased while in the preoperative period. Women, those who had sleep problems before hospitalization, and those who ...

Our results indicate that women are more likely to report pre-operative mental distress than men and the mentally distressed group have worse absolute values for all domains of SF-36 score. However, ...

A system-wide preoperative nutrition program improves patient outcomes and offers the potential for substantial cost savings for health care systems, according to a new study being presented at the ...

Clinicians frequently order preoperative urinalyses for patients scheduled to undergo many common procedures. A new study finds that nearly nine out of 10 of preoperative urinalyses are unnecessary.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . GRAPEVINE, Texas — Results showed most patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty achieved the minimum ...

Historically, patient-reported outcome measures were primarily utilized for research purposes in orthopedics.However, renewed ...