Stopped: The study has been terminated due to technical limitations in the institutional IT system, which cannot support the maintenance and integration of the application. Consequently, no further participant recruitment will be conducted.
The use of web based self-assessment questionnaires as a complementary tool for conducting preoperative assessment (POA) is gaining increasing acceptance. Preanestes@s2.0 is a web based application fully developed by the investigators team which potentially allows for remote non-telephonic POA. It has already been evaluated as a feasible tool in terms of patient acceptance and quality of the information recorded. In this prospective two-arm study, the investigators will evaluate the incidence of suboptimal POA when the participants are evaluated through Preanestes@s2.0 versus the traditional outpatient face to face visit. The investigators will consider as suboptimal any POA that potentially may generate an inadequate preparation of the patient which may affect the expected results. A total 1.127 participants will be evaluated through Preanestes@s2.0 (intervention arm) and compared to a cohort of 1.127 patients evaluated by traditional face-to-face interview (non-intervention arm). The comparison will be made by means of a propensity score matching study. Patients included in both arms of the study will be recruited throughout the same period of time.
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Suboptimal preoperative assessments (SOPA).
Timeframe: From the day of intervention up to 7 days after intervention