Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Preoperative anaesthesia and other team meetings for complex cases: a narrative review
Authors' conclusion
There is currently not enough robust evidence that preoperative team meetings clearly improve hard patient's outcome parameters. And the place for ATM does not appear to have been studied to date.
Study context
- Population
- Studies (1980–2024) on preoperative team meetings for complex cases involving high-risk patients or procedures
- Participants
- 14 studies
- Comparison
- MDTM vs STM vs ATM
- MDTMn = 11
- STMn = 2
- ATMn = 1
- Outcome
- Studies identified by type of preoperative team meeting
Methodological detailsqualitative synthesis
- Qualitative synthesis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
MDTM
11
events
STM
2
events
ATM
1
events
Original publication
Preoperative anaesthesia and other team meetings for complex cases: a narrative review. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 2 August 2024. doi:10.
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