Meeting
Abstract Number: 252
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hip fracture is a common reason for urgent inpatient surgery. In the last few years, several professional societies have identified preoperative echocardiography and stress testing for non-cardiac surgeries as low-value diagnostics. Delaying hip fracture surgery beyond 48 hours leads to worse outcomes. We sought to describe the prevalence of preoperative cardiac testing for inpatient […]