Short-stay surgery in orthopaedics.

  • 1 August 1982
    • journal article
    • Vol. 14  (3) , 73-4
Abstract
This paper reviews the orthopaedic operations performed on patients from one consultant's waiting list using two short-stay wards. In a twelve-month period over 200 operations were performed with no major complication. The ultimate clinical result was not impaired by the short period of hospitalization. The advantages short-stay wards have over day wards in reducing orthopaedic waiting lists are discussed, as are the precautions necessary to make this a safe method of managing non-urgent orthopaedic problems.

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