title: Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XIX: Variants of the ERAS Program.
abstract: The integrated recovery pathway is a variant of the enhanced recovery pathway after surgery program, which saw a further decrease in complications and mean length of stay after a change in culture was instituted with more accountability of the staff to following the pathway. This was accomplished using a team-based comprehensive unit-based safety program. It has also been found that another variant of the enhanced recovery pathway after surgery program had a further improvement of patient outcomes after instituting a "preventive surgical site infection bundle."
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*