Pre-operative testing guidelines: a NICE try but not enough

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¹ lsie Bertram Diabetes Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norfolk, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Yorks, UK.

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K K Dhatariya et al. Anaesthesia. 2016 Dec.

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. 2016 Dec;71(12):1403-1407.

doi: 10.1111/anae.13669. Epub 2016 Sep 26.

¹ lsie Bertram Diabetes Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norfolk, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Yorks, UK.

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Keywords: diabetes; guidelines; hyperglycaemia; national institute for health and care excellence; pre-operative testing.

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