Why the study?
Does shortened postoperative hospital stay improve outcomes or resource utilization in postsurgical patients?
Does shortened postoperative hospital stay improve outcomes or resource utilization in postsurgical patients?
Shortening postoperative hospital stay for common general surgery procedures appears safe and increases hospital bed availability.
Supports exploring shorter postoperative stays; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Postoperative hospital stay of 200 unselected patients who underwent either appendectomy, cholecystectomy, herniorrhaphy, or hemorrhoidectomy has been shortened by one third to one half of the customary hospital convalescence. This has been accomplished with a patient group living in a favorable sociomedical environment without detriment, and with probable benefit, to the patients and their families. The substantial shortening of hospital stay automatically increases the number of available hospital beds which at present is inadequate to meet the increasing demand.
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