Development of Surgical Service System in a Same Day Surgery in the 10th Health District

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Thida Yukuntawaranun

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Background: Unnecessary tasks are clearly in the public hospital to the loss of resources to care patients without the need to be admitted to hospital.  Same day surgery service system reduces the length of unnecessary hospital stay; however, it maintains standards of patient care.  Objectives: To develop the service system of same day surgery in order to access in the 10th Health District and study of reducing the length of unnecessary hospital stay and patient safety.  Methods: The study was conducted and prepared guidance to serve same day surgery by using the services of the hospital, a Yasothon prototype.  Additionally, guideline implementation set data collection and analysis.  Results: The target patients were 3,750 patients to be serviced in the same day surgery in a number of 234 cases which it reduced unnecessary of hospital stay for 339 days as a result of service quality indicators, not exceed the targets set.  Conclusions: All of the participating hospitals completed in all projects providing patients with same day surgery that patients were safe and it reduced the length of unnecessary hospital stay for 59.14 percent of the standard normal day.

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