title: CABG path yields savings, but proves 'user unfriendly'.
abstract: By reformatting their cardiac surgery pathways and soliciting greater staff participation in the development process, case managers at Bakersfield (CA) Memorial Hospital have boosted staff buy-in and streamlined documentation. Such an overhaul was made necessary last year when the percentage of cardiac patients being put on the pathway dropped sharply, from an initial high of 90% to less than 40%. Under the pathway, extubation times following surgery dropped from an average of 18 hours to 11 hours, with 60% of patients averaging between five and seven hours.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000592:standards*; D019091:Critical Pathways; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic