Reducing unnecessary preoperative testing

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ldossett@umich.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Lesly A Dossett et al. BMJ. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 6:379:e070118.

doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-070118.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ldossett@umich.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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