Preoperative Educational Intervention Decreases Unplanned Gastrostomy-Related Health Care Utilization
| Autor: | Wesley E, Barry, Erica N, Barin, Lori C, Marshall, Majella, Doherty, Eugene, Nguyen, Cory, McLaughlin, Lucas, Kaplan, James E, Stein, Aaron R, Jensen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Gastrostomy
Male Adolescent Infant Newborn Infant Length of Stay Patient Acceptance of Health Care Unnecessary Procedures Cohort Studies Postoperative Complications Caregivers Patient Education as Topic Child Preschool Preoperative Care Ambulatory Care Humans Female Child Intubation Gastrointestinal Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | The American surgeon. 84(10) |
| ISSN: | 1555-9823 |
| Popis: | Apprehension in taking independent care of children with medical devices may lead to unnecessary visits to the ED and/or acute clinic (AC). To address these concerns, our institution implemented a gastrostomy tube (GT) class in 2011 for caretakers. We hypothesized that inappropriate GT-related ED/AC visits would be lower in preoperatively educated caregivers. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients aged 0 to 18 who received GT (surgical or percutaneous) at our institution between 2006 and 2015 (n = 1340). Class attendance (trained |
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