Why the study?
Health inequities persist in surgical outcomes across races and ethnicities, and standardization of perioperative care through ERAS may reduce healthcare disparities in marginalized communities.
Do Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce health disparities and improve outcomes in pediatric surgical patients from marginalized communities?
Do Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce health disparities and improve outcomes in pediatric surgical patients from marginalized communities?
Standardization of perioperative care through ERAS protocols may help reduce healthcare inequities and improve surgical outcomes in marginalized communities.
May warrant ERAS standardization to address pediatric surgical inequities; leaves open prospective equity-focused trials before practice change.
Health inequities persist in surgical outcomes between different races and ethnicities. Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) protocols are innovative perioperative management strategies that have improved outcomes and reduced costs of delivering care. Quality improvement tools embedded in the protocols allow for sequential improvements in compliance and outcomes. Standardization of perioperative care may reduce healthcare inequities and improve outcomes in marginalized communities. In this review, we describe the benefits of ERAS in surgical outcomes, discuss how implementation of ERAS could potentially reduce health disparities in pediatric surgical patients, demonstrate the barriers present in ERAS implementation, propose solutions to these implementation barriers (Table 1).
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