Key result
Video-assisted preoperative education fails to reduce hospital length of stay for abdominal surgeries.
Why the study?
Evaluating healthcare outcomes like length of stay helps assess healthcare delivery while reducing costs and maintaining or improving quality of care.
Does preoperative video-assisted education reduce length of stay in patients undergoing abdominal surgeries?
Comparison
Video-assisted education vs control
Design
Experimental study
Authors
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Does not support routine preoperative video education to shorten stays; challenges assumptions of benefit and redirects research to alternative strategies.
RCT (n=126)
Random sampling
No
Does preoperative video-assisted education reduce length of stay in patients undergoing abdominal surgeries?
Preoperative video-assisted education did not significantly reduce the length of hospital stay for patients undergoing abdominal surgeries.
D Mathai (2023) conducted an RCT in Abdominal surgeries (n=126). Video-assisted preoperative education vs. Control group was evaluated on Length of hospital stay. Video-assisted preoperative education did not have a significant effect on the length of hospital stay for patients admitted for abdominal surgeries.
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