What impact does surgery have on the functional status of an older patient? The aim of a recent study, published in Annals of Surgery, [1] was to assess recovery of function after elective and ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

Currently, surgery is the preferred treatment for resectable lung cancer. Most surgical reports have focused on preoperative risk factors and operative mortality along with long-term survival. Late ...

Information on functional status—whether or not a person can carry out routine daily tasks independently—improves the ability to predict risk of death in patients undergoing surgery, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who required some or total assistance to perform activities of daily living prior to total hip ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Koneksa, a healthcare technology company pioneering evidence-based digital biomarkers, today announced the publication of a new multi-domain model for capturing functional ...