The University of Connecticut Health Center has made available perioperative nurse competency checklists. The checklists ensure registered nurses are competent in the areas of perioperative procedures ...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Patient Safety Committee provides free, downloadable pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery patient safety checklists. While the two, one-page ...

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.

Perioperative medicine is emerging as a transformative, comprehensive, system-wide approach to patient care before, during, ...

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 ...