title: Day surgery and community health services work load: a descriptive study.
abstract: This prospective descriptive study of primary health care workload in the five days after day surgery is based on a questionnaire to patients who received day surgery in a specialist unit in Oxford. Half of all patients received health care, the mean consultation time was 16 minutes, and half the consultations were within two days of surgery.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Radcliffe Infirmary.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dawes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McWilliam
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Millar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D003153:Community Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000592:standards*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D016526:Workload