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To determine whether approaching patients for consent on the day of surgery impairs understanding or produces unacceptable anxiety compared with obtaining consent before the day of surgery.We assessed the effect of the timing of obtaining consent for a moderate- to high-risk factorial trial of clonidine and aspirin in patients having noncardiac surgery. Between February 1, 2011, and November 31, 2011,...