Niagara Falls, Ontario—Older patients presenting for major elective surgeries do not often receive perioperative geriatric care, a Canadian study has concluded. These findings fly in the face of current research, which has demonstrated that preoperative geriatric evaluations improve postoperative outcomes in this age group, a finding corroborated by the current study. The conclusions probably also can be extrapolated to patients in the United States.
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