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Day Surgery Program at West China Hospital: Exploring the Initial Experience.
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- Association between preoperative sleep disturbance and psychomotor recovery profiles after general anesthesia in day surgery: a prospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perioperative changes of blood routine in daytime transurethral ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy and construction of a risk prediction model for delayed discharge.Urolithiasis · 2025Article
- The Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Acupuncture Stimulation on Postoperative Pain Control and Mobility in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy: Study Protocol for a Prospective Randomized Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- The Ecology of Medical Care in Shanghai: Temporal Trends and International Comparisons.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Predictive Factors of Acute Pain After Day Surgery: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Feasibility of twenty-four-hour discharge of patients with anterior mediastinal tumors after subxiphoid video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) procedure.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- [Chinese Expert Consensus on Day Surgery Management of Lung Cancer (2024 Edition)].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2024Article
- The development of day surgery in China and the effectiveness and reflection of day surgery in ophthalmology-specialized hospitals.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2024Article
- Association Between Pre-Hospital e-Education via QR Code and Hospital Stay in Inguinal Hernia Patients Undergoing General Anaesthesia: A Retrospective Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Efficacy of a new day surgery management mode based on WeChat: a study protocol for randomised controlled trials.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Feasibility and applicability of pulmonary nodule day surgery in thoracic surgery.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Pivotal role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in improving survival outcome of stage I non-small cell lung cancer in day surgery patients.Thoracic cancer · 2021Article
- Exploration of percutaneous vertebroplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture as day surgery: a retrospective study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Day Surgery for Patients with Pulmonary Nodules: A Single-Center Clinical Experience of 200 Cases.Cancer management and research · 2021Article
- Safety and Feasibility of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Day Surgery and Inpatient Surgery in Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
Healthcare facilities in China are facing increasing demands as the country has the fastest aging populations in the world. Day surgery can be utilized to address some of these demands. Benefits of day surgery include shortened hospital stay, decreased risk of hospital-associated infections, and increased cost efficiency. We present a retrospective study of eight years of day surgery data from West China Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in China, with an emphasis on an examination of the growth in day surgeries. We examined patterns of utilization of day surgery versus inpatient surgery (including types of surgeries performed in the Day Surgery Center and the ratio of day surgery versus elective surgery), as well as unplanned readmission and return to inpatient department rates, and a comparison of average costs and length of stay for day surgery versus hospital surgery. Day surgery has a safe and cost-effective way to alleviate the soaring healthcare demands in West China. There is potential opportunity to further address the ever-increasing demands on the healthcare system in this area by performing more complex surgeries as day surgeries. This article presents an effective organizational protocol and proposes a reliable medical quality assurance system, which prioritizes safety of the growing day surgery program; furthermore, it describes the factors and lessons learned from the successful implementation of a day surgery system.
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