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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