Time to endoscopic intervention in patients with upper gastrointestinal patients can be improved with pathway provision.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with upper gastrointestinal malignancy often require admission to hospital with dysphagia or jaundice requiring therapeutic endoscopy. Endoscopic intervention is often effective permitting rapid discharge. An efficient service would permit rapid discharge for patients who are often at the end of life. We noted that a majority of patients in hospital under the gastroenterological oncology were admitted with symptoms requiring therapeutic endoscopy.

Methods

We conducted an audit cycle of the inpatient days before and after pathway implementation. A wait of 1 day was set as acceptable for patients with bleeding as defined by NICE guidance and we set an arbitrary standard of 2 days for patients without bleeding but requiring therapeutic endoscopy. Between the

SUBMITTER: Singer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5445365 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature