Miami—Analyzing the impact of implementing patient-centered protocols for preoperative anesthesia testing at their institution, a team at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School discovered an unexpected dividend: an annual cost reduction of more than 50%, which was nearly $200,000.
Presenting the study at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (abstract 1826), the researchers described how following joint guidelines for individualized patient testing from the United