Healthy patients undergoing lab testing before surgery is one of the most common forms of unnecessary, low-value care, according to a study published Sept. 27 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers ...

Depending on which hospital you go to for your low-risk surgical procedure, you may be 2.4 times more or less likely to be sent for unnecessary blood tests. This is among the findings of a study ...

Routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is widely viewed as having low value. A new research article indicates that routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is common despite ...

TORONTO, JANUARY 28, 2016 -- Depending on which hospital you go to for your low-risk surgical procedure, you may be 2.4 times more or less likely to be sent for unnecessary blood tests. This is among ...

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that it is still a common occurrence and is driven primarily ...

We all want our surgery to go as smoothly as possible, but at what point is it not in our best interest to have lots of preoperative tests ordered?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women scheduled for gynecologic surgery are very likely to undergo unnecessary tests before their operation, new research shows. While the tests (blood and urine tests, ...

There is often controversy regarding laboratory studies. Routine preoperative laboratory screening is not cost-effective or predictive of postoperative complications, according to most studies. [3] ...

A retrospective analysis recently showed guidelines for routine preoperative testing have little influence on physician behavior. The most current study collected data from the National Ambulatory and ...