Abstract Background Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)
undergoing inpatient procedures represent a population at elevated risk for adverse …

Objective Informed consent is an essential principle of high-quality health care. A core
component of surgical informed consent is patient comprehension of basic information such …

Background Days at home after surgery is a promising new patient-centred outcome metric
that measures time spent outside of healthcare institutions and mortality. The aim of this …

Background We sought to define surgical outcomes among elderly patients with Alzheimer's
disease and related dementias (ADRD) following major thoracic and gastrointestinal …

Importance Advance care planning (ACP), in which patients or their surrogates discuss
goals and preferences for care with physicians, attorneys, friends, and family, is an important …

Objective The number of adults with dementia is rising worldwide. Although dementia has
been linked with inferior outcomes following various operations, this phenomenon has not …

Goodijk at al. investigated the relationship between preoperative cognitive performance and
overall postoperative complications, postoperative delirium (POD), and postoperative …

Background It is projected that the elderly population will continue to increase. Many will
develop chronic conditions such as dementia. Aims Our aims are to describe the utilization …

Abstract Introduction Patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)
undergoing colorectal surgery have suboptimal postoperative outcomes, but the specific …

Objective With an aging population and higher prevalence of dementia, there is a paucity of
data regarding dementia patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. We examined the …