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A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway
PURPOSE: Clinical pathways are widely prevalent in health care and may be associated with increased clinical efficacy, improved patient care, streamlining of services, while providing clarity on patient management. Such pathways are well established in several branches of healthcare services but, to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7890783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33599900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10029-020-02354-9 |
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author | Smith, O. MacLeod, T. Lim, P. Chitsabesan, P. Chintapatla, S. |
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description | PURPOSE: Clinical pathways are widely prevalent in health care and may be associated with increased clinical efficacy, improved patient care, streamlining of services, while providing clarity on patient management. Such pathways are well established in several branches of healthcare services but, to the authors’ knowledge, not in complex abdominal wall reconstruction (CAWR). A stepwise, structured and comprehensive approach to managing complex abdominal wall hernia (CAWH) patients, which has been successfully implemented in our practice, is presented. METHODS: A literature search of common databases including Embase® and MEDLINE® for CAWH pathways identified no comprehensive pathway. We therefore undertook a reiterative process to develop the York Abdominal Wall Unit (YAWU) through examination of current evidence and logic to produce a pragmatic redesign of our own pathway. Having introduced our pathway, we then performed a retrospective analysis of the complexity and number of abdominal wall cases performed in our trust over time. RESULTS: We describe our pathway and demonstrate that the percentage of cases and their complexity, as defined by the VHWG classification, have increased over time in York Abdominal Wall Unit. CONCLUSION: A structured pathway for complex abdominal wall hernia service is one way to improve patient experience and streamline services. The relevance of pathways for the hernia surgeon is discussed alongside this pathway. This may provide a useful guide to those wishing to establish similar personalised pathways within their own units and allow them to expand their service. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10029-020-02354-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-78907832021-02-18 A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway Smith, O. MacLeod, T. Lim, P. Chitsabesan, P. Chintapatla, S. Hernia Original Article PURPOSE: Clinical pathways are widely prevalent in health care and may be associated with increased clinical efficacy, improved patient care, streamlining of services, while providing clarity on patient management. Such pathways are well established in several branches of healthcare services but, to the authors’ knowledge, not in complex abdominal wall reconstruction (CAWR). A stepwise, structured and comprehensive approach to managing complex abdominal wall hernia (CAWH) patients, which has been successfully implemented in our practice, is presented. METHODS: A literature search of common databases including Embase® and MEDLINE® for CAWH pathways identified no comprehensive pathway. We therefore undertook a reiterative process to develop the York Abdominal Wall Unit (YAWU) through examination of current evidence and logic to produce a pragmatic redesign of our own pathway. Having introduced our pathway, we then performed a retrospective analysis of the complexity and number of abdominal wall cases performed in our trust over time. RESULTS: We describe our pathway and demonstrate that the percentage of cases and their complexity, as defined by the VHWG classification, have increased over time in York Abdominal Wall Unit. CONCLUSION: A structured pathway for complex abdominal wall hernia service is one way to improve patient experience and streamline services. The relevance of pathways for the hernia surgeon is discussed alongside this pathway. This may provide a useful guide to those wishing to establish similar personalised pathways within their own units and allow them to expand their service. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10029-020-02354-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Paris 2021-02-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7890783/ /pubmed/33599900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10029-020-02354-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Smith, O. MacLeod, T. Lim, P. Chitsabesan, P. Chintapatla, S. A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title | A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title_full | A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title_fullStr | A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title_full_unstemmed | A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title_short | A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway |
title_sort | structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our york pathway |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7890783/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33599900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10029-020-02354-9 |
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