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ReviewJournal of anaesthesiology, clinical pharmacology2019

Implementing enhanced recovery pathways to improve surgical outcomes.

Shilpadevi Patil, Elyse M Cornett, June Jesunathadas, Kumar Belani, Charles J Fox, Alan David Kaye, Lee A Lambert, Richard D Urman

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Review in Journal of anaesthesiology, clinical pharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Developing Implementation Strategies for the Adoption of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocols: A Co-Design Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  19. Enhanced recovery after surgery in children.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shilpadevi PatilDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
Elyse M CornettDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
June JesunathadasDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
Kumar BelaniDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Charles J FoxDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
Alan David KayeDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Lee A LambertDepartment of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Richard D UrmanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An enhanced recovery pathway is a structured perioperative healthcare program that incorporates evidence-based interventions including protocols and guidelines with the aim of providing standardized care. Enhanced recovery pathways can help maintain operating room safety and efficiency, improve postoperative recovery and a variety of important patient outcomes, and reduce overall costs of patient care following major surgery. Postoperative complications are minimized, which, in part, are attributed to adjustments in fasting and postoperative nutrition, interventions aimed at improving early mobilization, and careful selection of pharmacological agents for anesthesia and analgesia. Major surgery can lead to a variety of physiological stressors including organ dysfunction, and hormonal and neurological disturbances. The current notion of fast-tracking (bypassing phase I recovery level of care) differs from enhanced recovery pathways as the principles of enhanced recovery pathways are often applied to inpatient and complex procedures and span the entire spectrum of patient care. Also, enhanced recovery pathways programs are being used for pediatric patients especially with the hope of minimizing opioid exposure and the quality of recovery. A PubMed literature search was performed for articles that included the terms enhanced recovery pathways to improve surgical outcomes. In this article, we summarized the clinical application of enhanced recovery pathways and highlighted the key elements that characterize implementing an enhanced recovery pathway in surgery.

Indexed as

Enhanced careenhanced recovery pathwayintraoperative careperioperative carepreoperative careprotocolssurgery

Identifiers

PMID31142955
PMCPMC6515719
OpenAlexW2952880858

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