Impact of a Checklist on the Rate of Late Cancellation in Ambulatory Surgery (AMBUPROG)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ambulatory Surgery Programmed

Treatments: Other: Checklist

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01732159

K110601

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a check list on the rate of late cancellation, i.e. the day before or the day of the ambulatory surgery.

Full description

The checklist is administered to the patients by phone between 7 and 3 days before the surgery. Each item of the checklist is associated with a decisional algorithm that allows take care for patients in case of any problem.

Enrollment: 4,093 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient (adult or minor) for which ambulatory surgery is programmed in a multipurpose ASU
• Surgery under general anesthesia or loco
• Regional or neuroleptanalgesia3. Patient contacted by phone
• Patient does not oppose his participation in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patient programmed for endoscopy in ASU non surgical
• Ambulatory surgery scheduled for orthogenic
• Ambulatory surgery scheduled for urgency
• Ambulatory surgery performed under local anesthesia

Trial design

4,093 participants in 2 patient groups

Administration of the checklist

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be contacted by phone for administration of the checklist

Treatment:

Other: Checklist

No contact by phone

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients who will not be contacted by phone