What do general medicine perioperative services do? A Victorian multicentre cross‐sectional study
General medicine perioperative services provide care to older, co-morbid, frail and high-risk surgical patients across all perioperative settings. General physicians' role in perioperative care is diverse and wide-ranging. Well-resourced proactive models of perioperative care may confer better outcomes for patients.
Authors
- Harry Gibbs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6220-4362)
- Michael Luc
- Rui Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6445-3461)
- Ar Kar Aung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3317-945X)
- Ronan O’Donnabhain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-8900)
- Eldho Paul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1263-7255)
- J. Sansom
- Geoffrey Lester (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1846-2372)
- Edward Ritchie
- Richard Coates (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3175-4775)
- Douglas Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5148-4061)
- Vinita Rane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7874-9033)
- Ye Htet Aung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9713-3587)
- A. Muthusamy
- Elizabeth Potter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-9959)
- Corinne McCurdy
- David T. W. Lau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3443-1808)
- Guomin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3503-7431)
- A. Osborne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-3569)
- Rajesh Gounder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8062-1369)
- Robyn Whittingham
- Hedayat Pourhadi
- Hagen Herb
- Onalekitso Ramasokola
- Rachel Serebryanski
Institutions
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Northern Health (AU)
- St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (AU)
- Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (AU)
- Eastern Health (AU)
- Ballarat Health Services (AU)
- Western Health (AU)
- Monash Health (AU)
- Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (AU)
- Alfred Health (AU)
- Austin Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Internal Medicine Journal
- Published
- 2025-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.70243
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00