February 3, 2020

Standardized pathway for outpatient ambulatory fracture surgery

Editor's Note

In this study, an outpatient fracture pathway greatly improved the efficiency and timeliness of care, and it reduced costs.

A total of 187 patients during the preintervention period and 308 patients during the intervention period were eligible for the ambulatory pathway.

Those managed as outpatients increased from 1.6% (preintervention) to 89.1% (postintervention). Length of stay decreased from 2.8 to 0.2 days, a decrease of 94%.

Interventions included a policy change to allow booking of outpatient urgent-room cases, education for patients and nurses, and the development of a standardized outpatient pathway.

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