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RAG time: rapid access general surgery — a shared-care protocol to convert after-hours inpatient to daytime outpatient surgery

A rapid access general surgery (RAG) pilot protocol was implemented at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital in January 2021 in which surgeons seeing patients in the emergency department (ED) could access operating time set aside once per week. Appropriate patients discharged from the ED were scheduled into t...

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Autores principales: Hwang, Hamish, Rideout, Chad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CMA Impact Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37914211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cjs.004022
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description A rapid access general surgery (RAG) pilot protocol was implemented at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital in January 2021 in which surgeons seeing patients in the emergency department (ED) could access operating time set aside once per week. Appropriate patients discharged from the ED were scheduled into this time, usually with a different surgeon than the initial triaging surgeon. In this article, we discuss the outcomecs of the pilot project. This innovative reorganization of existing resources converted many patients from after-hours to scheduled outpatient daytime surgery with decreased hospital bed utilization.
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spelling pubmed-106200082023-11-02 RAG time: rapid access general surgery — a shared-care protocol to convert after-hours inpatient to daytime outpatient surgery Hwang, Hamish Rideout, Chad Can J Surg Discussions In Surgery A rapid access general surgery (RAG) pilot protocol was implemented at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital in January 2021 in which surgeons seeing patients in the emergency department (ED) could access operating time set aside once per week. Appropriate patients discharged from the ED were scheduled into this time, usually with a different surgeon than the initial triaging surgeon. In this article, we discuss the outcomecs of the pilot project. This innovative reorganization of existing resources converted many patients from after-hours to scheduled outpatient daytime surgery with decreased hospital bed utilization. CMA Impact Inc. 2023-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10620008/ /pubmed/37914211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cjs.004022 Text en © 2023 CMA Impact Inc. or its licensors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original publication is properly cited, the use is noncommercial (i.e., research or educational use), and no modifications or adaptations are made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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title RAG time: rapid access general surgery — a shared-care protocol to convert after-hours inpatient to daytime outpatient surgery
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title_short RAG time: rapid access general surgery — a shared-care protocol to convert after-hours inpatient to daytime outpatient surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37914211
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