Implementation of a fast-track perioperative care program: What are the difficulties?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 441-449

  Polle, Sebastiaan W ^a   Wind, Jan ^a   Fuhring, Jan W ^a   Hofland, Jan ^a   Gouma, Dirk J ^a   Bemelman, Willem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Colorectal surgery; Crohn's disease; Laparoscopy; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 38349018693     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000108327     Document Type: Article

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