Population
340 postsurgical patients admitted to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Duration of PACU stay
Authors
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Nonmedical delays prolong PACU stay beyond medical need; hypothesis-generating for workflow interventions without practice change.
A significant portion of PACU length of stay is driven by nonmedical issues such as waiting for physician release or test results, rather than medical stabilization.
Waddle et al. (1998) studied this question.
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