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Resource use and postoperative outcome: basic elements in benchmarking.

Minna Niskanen1

  • 1Department of Perioperative Services and Intensive Care, Kuopio University Hospital, PO Box 1777, Kuopio 70211, Finland. minnaliisa.niskanen@kuh.fi

Current Opinion in Critical Care
|May 7, 2009
PubMed
Summary
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Improving perioperative care efficiency is crucial. Enhanced recovery programs and centralization show promise for better patient outcomes and resource use, but standardized benchmarking is needed.

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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Surgical Process Optimization
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Perioperative care resource utilization and costs are often suboptimal, with significant institutional variations.
  • There is a growing imperative to enhance economic efficiency in perioperative processes without negatively impacting patient outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review current strategies for improving economic efficiency in perioperative care.
  • To identify methods for optimizing resource use and costs in the perioperative setting.
  • To explore the potential for interinstitutional benchmarking in surgical care.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on enhanced recovery programs and multimodal perioperative care.
  • Analysis of methods for standardizing patient populations, outcome measurement, and resource use.
  • Examination of evidence supporting centralization of surgical interventions.

Main Results:

  • Fast-track or enhanced recovery programs demonstrate benefits across various surgical specialties, primarily from single-center reports.
  • Benchmarking requires case-mix adjustment; standardization methods are emerging in specialties like colorectal and cardiac surgery.
  • Centralization of surgical interventions is associated with improved risk-adjusted outcomes and resource utilization.

Conclusions:

  • Development of feasible quality indicators and benchmarking methods is necessary for both intra- and interinstitutional comparisons.
  • Multicenter databases and appropriate tools are essential for objectively estimating resource use, outcomes, and treatment effects.