Jeanna D. Blitz, MD
San Diego—Following in the footsteps of earlier research demonstrating that their Preoperative Evaluation Clinic (PEC) decreased their 30-day readmission rate, researchers at New York University School of Medicine have now found that patients who attend the clinic have a significantly shorter observed-to-expected hospital length of stay (LOS) than those who do not attend.
These results, they said, help demonstrate that the value of PECs far exceeds the time and