December 12, 2018.
The High Authority for Health has made public an opinion warning about outpatient surgery: if patients are generally very satisfied with the care received, their discharge would be poorly prepared, they would lack information.
More than 1 in 2 patients hospitalized for outpatient surgery
Ambulatory surgery, that is to say surgery with a hospital stay of less than 12 hours and without overnight accommodation, is more and more frequent in hospitals, in particular to save money. ” The outpatient surgery hospitalization rate thus increased from 32% in 2007 to 54.7% in 2016. The objective is to reach 70% in 2022 », Can we read in the columns of Release.
According to last annual study of the High Authority for Health (HAS) on “quality and safety of care in health establishments”, published last Monday, December 10, the patients treated in outpatient surgery and who participated in the survey are mostly satisfied with the quality of their hospitalization and gave a score of 76.4 out of 100. On the other hand, the output is rated much lower.
1 in 4 patients say they were not informed of the complications of their operation
Also according to the Barometer, the discharge of patients after hospitalization for outpatient surgery should be better organized. It would indeed seem that patients are not sufficiently informed of possible complications or of the doctor to contact in the event of a problem, and ” only half of the patients were contacted by the establishment in the days following discharge “.
Thus, 2 out of 3 patients having been treated in outpatient surgery ” did not receive an emergency phone number “And 1 in 4 patients say” not having received any information on the signs or complications that should lead him to recontact the establishment as a matter of urgency ”. Thus, the HAS recommends toimprove the content of the liaison letter given to the patient upon discharge, which is not always given to him …
Aurélie Giraud
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