Why do clinicians continue to order ‘routine preoperative tests’ despite the evidence?

Andrei Brateanu; Michael B. Rothberg

doi:10.3949/ccjm.82a.15118

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Why do clinicians continue to order ‘routine preoperative tests’ despite the evidence?

Andrei Brateanu, MD and Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2015, 82 (10) 667-670; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.15118

Andrei Brateanu

Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic; Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

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For correspondence: abratean@ccf.org

Michael B. Rothberg

Vice Chair for Research, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic; Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

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