The Conundrum of Unnecessary Preoperative Testing.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Preoperative Risk Stratification for Major Events.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2026
   Review
2. Implementing a closed loop clinical decision support system for sustainable preoperative care.NPJ digital medicine · 2025
   Article
3. Reducing unnecessary preoperative testing through a comprehensive EMR based digital algorithm.EBioMedicine · 2025
   Article
4. Perioperative Pulmonary Support of the Elderly.Current geriatrics reports · 2021
   Review
5. Role of Patient- and Surgery-Specific Risk in Receipt of Outpatient Preoperative Testing.Perioperative care and operating room management · 2018
   Article
6. Surgeons' views on preoperative medical evaluation: a qualitative study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2017
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Trends in Pulmonary Function Testing Before Noncardiothoracic Surgery.2015
• Comment on
  Use of Preoperative Testing and Physicians' Response to Professional Society Guidance.2015

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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