Measuring In-Hospital Recovery After Colorectal Surgery Within a Well-Established Enhanced Recovery Pathway: A Comparison Between Hospital Length of Stay and Time to Readiness for Discharge.
Dis Colon Rectum
; 61(7): 854-860, 2018 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Hospital length of stay is often used as a measure of in-hospital recovery but may be confounded by organizational factors. Time to readiness for discharge may provide a superior index of recovery.OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study was to contribute evidence for the construct validity of time to readiness for discharge and length of stay as measures of in-hospital recovery after colorectal surgery in the context of a well-established enhanced recovery pathway.DESIGN:
This was an observational validation study designed according to the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health status Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) checklist. SETTINGS The study was conducted at a university-affiliated tertiary hospital. PATIENTS A total of 100 consecutive patients undergoing elective colorectal resection (mean age = 65 y; 57% men; 81% laparoscopic) who participated in a randomized controlled trial were included. MAIN OUTCOMEMEASURES:
We tested a priori hypotheses that length of stay and time-to-readiness for discharge are longer in patients undergoing open surgery, with lower physical status, with severe comorbidities, with postoperative complications, undergoing rectal surgery, who are older (≥75 y), who have a new stoma, and who have inflammatory bowel disease.RESULTS:
Median time-to-readiness for discharge and length of stay were both 3 days. For both measures, 6 of 8 construct validity hypotheses were supported (hypotheses 1 and 4-8).LIMITATIONS:
The use of secondary data from a randomized controlled trial (risk of selection bias) was a limitation. Results may not be generalizable to institutions where patient care is not equally structured.CONCLUSIONS:
This study contributes evidence to the construct validity of time-to-readiness for discharge and length of stay as measures of in-hospital recovery within enhanced recovery pathways. Our findings suggest that length of stay can be a less resource-intensive and equally construct-valid index of in-hospital recovery compared with time-to-readiness for discharge. Enhanced recovery pathways may decrease process-of-care variances that impact length of stay, allowing more timely discharge once discharge criteria are achieved. See Video Abstract at http//links.lww.com/DCR/A564.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Alta del Paciente
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Recto
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Colectomía
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Tiempo de Internación
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
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Observational_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Dis Colon Rectum
Año:
2018
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá