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Significant discrepancies exist between clinician assessment and patient self-assessment of functional capacity by validated scoring tools during preoperative evaluation

BACKGROUND: Preoperative assessment of functional capacity is necessary to direct decisions regarding cardiac evaluation and may help identify patients at high risk for perioperative complications. Patient self-triage regarding functional capacity could be useful for discerning which patients benefi...

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Autores principales: Stokes, John Whittemore, Wanderer, Jonathan Porter, McEvoy, Matthew David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27413530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13741-016-0041-4