Background Perioperative cardiovascular guidelines endorse functional capacity estimation,
based on 'cut-off'daily activities for risk assessment and climbing two flights of stairs to …

Background Guidelines endorse self-reported functional capacity for preoperative
cardiovascular assessment, although evidence for its predictive value is inconsistent. We …

Background Functional capacity is an important component of risk assessment for major
surgery. Doctors' clinical subjective assessment of patients' functional capacity has uncertain …

Objective Patients undergoing noncardiac surgery are at risk for postoperative
cardiovascular complications. Literature regarding the ability of the Revised Cardiac Risk …

Abstract Background The Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) questionnaire might help
incorporate self-reported functional capacity into preoperative risk assessment …

Background Functional capacity is used as an indicator for cardiac testing before non-
cardiac surgery and is often performed subjectively. However, the value of subjectively …

Study objective Quantifying functional capacity is a core component of preoperative
cardiovascular risk assessment. Lower metabolic equivalents (METs) are associated with …

Background Preoperative assessment of functional capacity is necessary to direct decisions
regarding cardiac evaluation and may help identify patients at high risk for perioperative …

Background. Preoperative anesthetic evaluations of patients before surgery traditionally
involves assessment of a patient's functional capacity to estimate perioperative risk of …

Self‐reported postoperative functional recovery is an important patient‐centred outcome that
is rarely measured or considered in research and decision‐making. We conducted a …