Postoperative Physician Phone Calls as a Method to Decrease Urgent Care and Emergency Department Returns After Ambulatory General Surgery.
Adult
Aged
Ambulatory Care
/ statistics & numerical data
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
California
/ epidemiology
Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic
Continuity of Patient Care
Emergency Service, Hospital
/ statistics & numerical data
Female
Hernia, Inguinal
/ surgery
Hernia, Umbilical
/ surgery
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Physician-Patient Relations
Postoperative Complications
/ epidemiology
Postoperative Period
Retrospective Studies
Telephone
complications after outpatient surgery
outpatient surgery
postoperative physician phone-call
Journal
The American surgeon
ISSN: 1555-9823
Titre abrégé: Am Surg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0370522
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
27
10
2020
medline:
5
1
2021
entrez:
26
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Unplanned returns after ambulatory surgery pose a burden to patients and health care providers alike. We hypothesized that a postoperative phone call by a physician would decrease avoidable returns to urgent care (UC) or the emergency department (ED) in the week after anorectal (AR), laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), inguinal hernia repair (IHR), and umbilical hernia repair (UHR) operations. A retrospective analysis from 1/2011 to 12/2015 across 14 Kaiser hospitals was conducted to determine baseline UC/ED return rates of patients pre-call. Between 10/2017 and 06/2019, physicians placed phone calls to patients within postoperative days (PODs) 1-4. The cohorts were compared using chi-squared analysis with significance determined at
Identifiants
pubmed: 33103465
doi: 10.1177/0003134820964463
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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