Anaesthesia for day-care surgery: a symposium (I)
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
- Vol. 27 (4), 399-405
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03007463
Abstract
Day-care surgery is a good alternative to conventional inpatient surgery. In Canada, all the provinces have day-care surgery programmes and British Columbia has a highly developed province-wide programme accounting for about 27 per cent of all operations; approximately 44 per cent of all operations in British Columbia could be done in day-care. Extrapolation of these figures nationally for the year 1975 indicates that Canadians could have saved approximately $209 million in hospital care by day-care surgery for all operations of the 25 procedures most commonly done in day-care. Further, if five other procedures which are suitable for day-care surgery had been so managed, there would have been a further potential of saving $62 million in Canada. Apart from economic justification, day-care surgery provides high quality care and is acceptable to patients and providers. La chirurgie ďun jour est une alternative valable à la chirurgie conventionnelle du malade hospitalisé. Au Canada, toutes les provinces ont des programmes de chirurgie ambulatoire et la Colombie Britanique a un programme provincial qui représente 27 pour cent de toutes les opérations et environ 44 pour cent de toutes les interrventions de cette province pourraient être effectuée selon ce mode. En extrapolant ces chiffres à tout le pays, on peut dire que pendant ľannée 1975, les canadiens auraient économisé environ 209 million de dollars dans les coûts des soins hospitaliers en recourant à la chirurgie ďun jour pour les 25 interventions les plus courantes. De plus, si cinq autres interventions possible en chirurgie ambulatoire avaient été ajoutées, on aurait pû économiser 62 million de dollars de plus. En plus de cette justification économique, la clinique ďun jour procure une haute qualité de soins et est acceptable aussi bien par les usagers que par ceux qui rendent ce service.Keywords
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