Journal article
Assessment and reporting of perioperative cardiac risk by canadian general internists
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Physicians may use several validated risk indices to estimate perioperative cardiac risk, but there is little evidence for interventions to reduce this risk. We were interested in evaluating how general internists assess, define, communicate, and attempt to modify perioperative cardiac risk.DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey of all 312 general internists in the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine with Canadian mailing addresses; 117 …
Authors
Taher T; Khan NA; Devereaux PJ; Fisher BW; Ghali WA; McAlister FA; the Canadian Perioperative Research Group
Journal
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 12, pp. 933–936
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2002
DOI
10.1046/j.1525-1497.2002.11230.x
ISSN
0884-8734