A structured pathway for developing your complex abdominal hernia service: our York pathway.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinical pathways are widely prevalent in health care and may be associated with increased clinical efficacy, improved patient care, streamlining of services, while providing clarity on patient management. Such pathways are well established in several branches of healthcare services but, to the authors' knowledge, not in complex abdominal wall reconstruction (CAWR). A stepwise, structured and comprehensive approach to managing complex abdominal wall hernia (CAWH) patients, which has been successfully implemented in our practice, is presented.

Methods

A literature search of common databases including Embase® and MEDLINE® for CAWH pathways identified no comprehensive pathway. We therefore undertook a reiterative process to develop the York Abdominal Wall Unit (YAWU) th

SUBMITTER: Smith O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature