Virtual preoperative assessment in surgical patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Preoperative assessment is a standard evaluation, traditionally done in-person in a preanesthesia clinic, for patients who will be undergoing a procedure involving anesthesia. Given the increased adoption of virtual care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to review the effectiveness of virtual preoperative assessment for the evaluation of surgical patients.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Setting

MEDLINE (Ovid), MEDLINE InProcess/ePubs, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from the initial coverage of the respective database to May 2021. A manual citation search of

SUBMITTER: Zhang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9759637 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature