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Choosing Wisely: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Unnecessary Preoperative Testing

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is a rural, academic medical center in the northeastern United States; its General Internal Medicine (GIM) division performs about 900 low and intermediate surgical risk preoperative evaluations annually. Routine preoperative testing in these evaluations is widely...

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Autores principales:	Matulis, John, Liu, Stephen, Mecchella, John, North, Frederick, Holmes, Alison
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	British Publishing Group 2017
Materias:	BMJ Quality Improvement Programme
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5457968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28607678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjquality.u216281.w6691

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