Using Electronic Medical Records to Identify Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Cases.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) aims to improve surgical outcomes by integrating evidence-based practices across preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. Data in electronic medical records (EMRs) provide insight on how ERAS is implemented and its impact on surgical outcomes. Because ERAS is a multimodal pathway provided by multiple physicians and health care providers over time, identifying ERAS cases in EMRs is not a trivial task. To better understand how EMRs can be used to study ERAS, we describe our experience with using current methodologies and the development and rationale of a new method for retrospectively identifying ERAS cases in EMRs.

Case description

Using EMR data from surgical departments at the University of North Carolina at Chape

SUBMITTER: Freeman NLB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662533 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature