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10384847

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-27
pubmed:abstractText
Day case surgery should be confined to those procedures where less than 3% of patients require admission. The aim of this study was to establish the admission rates, early readmission rates and patient acceptability of 142 consecutive cases of day case septoplasty. Data acquisition was by retrospective postal questionnaire. One hundred and fifty-three patients were studied and data was acquired on 142. Ninety per cent (128/142) of patients had operations on afternoon lists. Admissions were 7/142 (5%), the early readmission rate (within 24 h) was 0% and 25/142 (17%) of patients felt they would rather have stayed in hospital for the first night after surgery. The conclusion of this work is that day case septoplasty is an acceptable practice in appropriately selected patients who are operated upon in the morning and when the technique described here is applied. An acceptably small proportion of planned day cases may require admission.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0307-7772
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
213-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-5-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Admission rates, early readmission rates and patient acceptability of 142 cases of day case septoplasty.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of ENT, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article