Multicomponent Deimplementation Strategy to Reduce Low-Value Preoperative Testing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Routine preoperative blood tests and electrocardiograms before low-risk surgery do not prevent adverse events or change management but waste resources and can cause patient harm. Given this, multispecialty organizations recommend against routine testing before low-risk surgery.

Objective

To determine whether a multicomponent deimplementation strategy (the intervention) would reduce low-value preoperative testing before low-risk general surgery operations.

Design, setting, and participants

This study had a pre-post quality improvement interventional design using interrupted time series and difference-in-difference analytic approaches. The setting was a single academic, quaternary referral hospital with 2 freestanding ambulatory surgery centers and a central

SUBMITTER: Antunez AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11904733 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature