Successful recovery after major surgery: moving beyond length of stay

There is strong evidence that Enhanced Recovery Pathways improve length of hospital stay, readmission rates, and complications after major surgery. However, recovery is a complex process that only finishes when the patient returns to normal function. Future studies should also address the patient ex...

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Autores principales: Miller, Timothy E, Mythen, Monty
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25018877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-0525-3-4
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spelling pubmed-40945972014-07-13 Successful recovery after major surgery: moving beyond length of stay Miller, Timothy E Mythen, Monty Perioper Med (Lond) Editorial There is strong evidence that Enhanced Recovery Pathways improve length of hospital stay, readmission rates, and complications after major surgery. However, recovery is a complex process that only finishes when the patient returns to normal function. Future studies should also address the patient experience, as well as functional recovery and quality of life after major surgery. BioMed Central 2014-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4094597/ /pubmed/25018877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-0525-3-4 Text en Copyright © 2014 Miller and Mythen; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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