Information on functional status—whether or not a person can carry out routine daily tasks independently—improves the ability to predict risk of death in patients undergoing surgery, according to a ...

Each time that an anesthetic is rendered, the patient is assigned an ASA physical status modifier which describes the complexity of the service provided. Although many practitioners see this as simply ...

Researchers found a patient’s physical status, the duration of surgery and the surgical specialty may impact the patient’s likelihood of unplanned hospital admission after ambulatory surgery, ...

The source population for cases and controls was 9,037 patients who underwent 10,457 operative procedures. One hundred ninety-six confirmed surgical site infections were identified (infection rate 2.1 ...