Financial and operational impact of a direct-from-PACU discharge pathway for laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 372-378

  Sandberg, Warren S ^a   Canty, Timothy ^a   Sokal, Suzanne M ^a   Daily, Bethany ^a   Berger, David L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BED OCCUPANCY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; POSTANESTHESIA NURSING; RECOVERY ROOM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33747602346     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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