Implementation and audit of 'Fast-Track Surgery' in gynaecological oncology surgery

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 371-376

  Sidhu, Verinder S ^a   Lancaster, Letitia ^b   Elliott, David ^a,b   Brand, Alison H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

fast track surgery; gynaecological oncology; implementation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYSTECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FAST TRACK SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEUROPATHY; OMENTECTOMY; ONCOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL AUDIT; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864701716     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2012.01451.x     Document Type: Article

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