Economic analysis of surgical outcome monitoring using control charts: the SHEWHART cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Surgical complications represent a considerable proportion of hospital expenses. Therefore, interventions that improve surgical outcomes could reduce healthcare costs.

Objective

Evaluate the effects of implementing surgical outcome monitoring using control charts to reduce hospital bed-days within 30 days following surgery, and hospital costs reimbursed for this care by the insurer.

Design

National, parallel, cluster-randomised SHEWHART trial using a difference-in-difference approach.

Setting

40 surgical departments from distinct hospitals across France.

Participants

155 362 patients over the age of 18 years, who underwent hernia repair, cholecystectomy, appendectomy, bariatric, colorectal, hepatopancreatic or oesophageal and gastric surgery w

SUBMITTER: Skinner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11041585 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature