Paediatric day care surgery increased parental participation reduces costs

Summary, in English

In this paper, the marginal or incremental consequences of increased parental participation in a day-care surgery unit are analysed. Information about the parental role and instruction concer treatment caused parents to assume a greater share of their child's postoperative care. This advantages for the involved participants. Children and their parents spent a shorter time at the attributable to nursing care were consequently reduced by 11%.

• Författare: Inger Hallström; Anders Norlund; Gerhard Malmfors
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; Pediatrik, Lund
• Publiceringsår: 1998
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 247-249
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: European Journal of Public Health
• Volym: 3
• Issue: 8
• Länkar: http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/8/3/247
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Oxford University Press
• Ämne: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Nyckelord: day care surgery; cost-effectiveness; child; information; parental partice
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1101-1262