It Is Time to Prioritize Treatment Burden If We Want to Deliver Truly Patient-Centered Perioperative Care

From the *Management and Innovation for Longevity in Elderly Surgical Patients (MILES), Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore †Quality, Innovation & Improvement and Department of Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital & Jurong Community Hospital ‡Perioperative Medicine for Older People Undergoing Surgery (POPS), Department of Ageing and Health, Guy's and St Thomas' National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom §School of Life Course and Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom ‖Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom. Accepted for publication September 20, 2023. Funding: None. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's website (www.anesthesia-analgesia.org). Reprints will not be available from the authors. Address correspondence to Wan Chin Lim, PhD, Department of Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital & Jurong Community Hospital, 1 Jurong East St 21, Singapore. Address e-mail to [email protected].