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  1. Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Gerald W. Smetana MD

  2. State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Steven L. Cohn MD

  3. The Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Donna L. Mercado MD

  4. IMPACT (Internal Medicine Preoperative Assessment, Consultation, and Treatment) Center and Anticoagulation Clinic, Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Amir K. Jaffer MD

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This paper derives from the presentation: Update in Perioperative Medicine at the 29th annual session of SGIM, April 2006.

Dr. Smetana has received honoraria from Harvard Medical International/Novartis Pharma Schweiz (course director), and is on the advisory board of Safe Med Imaging Harvard Expert Panel. Dr. Cohn is on the speakers bureaus of Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer, and has stock ownership in Astra-Zeneca, Glako, Merck, and Pfizer. Dr. Mercado has given expert testimony for ProMutual Group, Boston, MA, in the past 3 years. Dr. Jaffer has been a consultant for Astra-Zeneca and Sanofi-Aventis in the past 3 years, has received honoraria and is on the speakers bureau of Astra-Zeneca, and has received grant and research support from Astra-Zeneca in the past 3 years.

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Smetana, G.W., Cohn, S.L., Mercado, D.L. et al. Update in perioperative medicine. J GEN INTERN MED 21, 1329–1337 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00630.x

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