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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2022

Changes in healthcare utilisation after surgical treatment: mitigating risk through multidisciplinary and collaborative care.

Guy Haller

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Guy HallerDivision of Anaesthesia, Department of Acute Care Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals-University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Health Services Management and Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: guy.haller@hcuge.ch.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent study by Fowler and colleagues identified increased utilisation of healthcare resources among patients, mostly from deprived social areas with chronic diseases, undergoing emergency and high-risk surgery. Reasons for these findings include the intrinsic risk of surgery, postoperative complications, and the need for chronically ill patients to have their usual treatment resumed after surgery. To improve the overall outcome of surgery in this category of patients, a number of elements in the process of care should be adjusted. This includes minimising the number of emergency procedures and enhancing collaboration between all healthcare professionals inside and outside hospitals.

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Health PersonnelPatient Acceptance of Health CareHospitalsHumansPostoperative Complicationschronic diseasecomplicationsemergency surgeryhealthcare utilisationpostoperative outcomeprimary caresocial deprivation

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PMID36333162

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