Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Evaluation of routine preoperative testing practices in Sudanese public hospitals 2024: a multicenter prospective study
Authors' conclusion
This study reported significant overutilization of preoperative testing in Sudanese public hospitals.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing elective operations in main public hospitals at Atbara, Shendi and Port-Sudan, Sudan, January 2024
- Participants
- 90 consecutive patients
- Outcome
- Routine preoperative investigations and compliance with NICE guidelines (unnecessary investigations)
Methodological detailsconsecutive sampling
- Consecutive sampling
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Unnecessary preoperative investigations per NICE guidelines
Patients with at least one unnecessary investigation: 89 of 90
99%
Unnecessary investigations: 312 of 586 requested
53.2%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Predictors of requesting unnecessary investigations
- ASA status
- p value 0.020
- Surgery grade
- < 0.001
Original publication
Evaluation of routine preoperative testing practices in Sudanese public hospitals 2024: a multicenter prospective study. Perioper Med (Lond). Published 8 April 2025. doi:10.
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