Preoperative evaluation clinics, including telephone-based systems, are common but require tailoring to hospital characteristics and patient feedback for quality improvement.
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Hospital-specific preoperative models warrant consideration of telephone options; this review leaves open definitive outcome comparisons.
Yen et al. (2010) studied this question.
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