16
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Preoperative assessment of the older patient: a narrative review.

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Surgery in older patients often poses risks of death, complications, and functional decline. Prior to surgery, evaluations of health-related priorities, realistic assessments of surgical risks, and individualized optimization strategies are essential.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          JAMA
          JAMA
          American Medical Association (AMA)
          1538-3598
          0098-7484
          May 2014
          : 311
          : 20
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Surgery, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco.
          [2 ] Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
          Article
          1874486
          10.1001/jama.2014.4573
          24867014
          92684339-12c7-454f-a795-e8f30aec7b93
          History

          Comments

          Comment on this article

          scite_
          307
          5
          182
          0
          Smart Citations
          307
          5
          182
          0
          Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting
          View Citations

          See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

          scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.

          Similar content253

          Cited by85