CABG path yields savings, but proves 'user unfriendly'.
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.
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