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Ke JXC, de Vos M, Kojic K, Hwang M, Park J, Stuart H, Osborn J, Flexman A, Blake L, McIsaac DI. Healthcare delivery gaps in pain management within the first 3 months after discharge from inpatient noncardiac surgeries: a scoping review. Br J Anaesth 2023; 131:925-936. [PMID: 37716887 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Poor pain control during the postoperative period has negative implications for recovery, and is a critical risk factor for development of persistent postsurgical pain. The aim of this scoping review is to identify gaps in healthcare delivery that patients undergoing inpatient noncardiac surgeries experience in pain management while recovering at home. METHODS Searches were conducted by a medical librarian in PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, EBSCO CINAHL, Web of Science, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for articles published between 2016 and 2022. Inclusion criteria were adults (≥18 yr), English language, inpatient noncardiac surgery, and included at least one gap in care for acute and/or persistent pain management after surgery within the first 3 months of recovery at home. Two reviewers independently screened articles for inclusion and extracted data. Quotations from each article related to gaps in care were synthesised using thematic analysis. RESULTS There were 4794 results from databases and grey literature, of which 38 articles met inclusion criteria. From these, 23 gaps were extracted, encompassing all six domains of healthcare delivery (capacity, organisational structure, finances, patients, care processes and infrastructure, and culture). Identified gaps were synthesised into five overarching themes: education (22 studies), provision of continuity of care (21 studies), individualised management (10 studies), support for specific populations (11 studies), and research and knowledge translation (10 studies). CONCLUSIONS This scoping review identified health delivery gaps during a critical period in postoperative pain management. These gaps represent potential targets for quality improvement and future research to improve perioperative care and longer-term patient-centred outcomes. SCOPING REVIEW PROTOCOL Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/cq5m6/).
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- Janny X C Ke
- Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Undergraduate Medical Education Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library, Little Rock, AK, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Armstrong E, Yin X, Razee H, Pham CV, Sa-Ngasoongsong P, Tabu I, Jagnoor J, Cameron ID, Yang M, Sharma V, Zhang J, Close JCT, Harris IA, Tian M, Ivers R. Exploring Barriers to, and Enablers of, Evidence-Informed Hip Fracture Care in Five Low- Middle-Income Countries: China, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. Health Policy Plan 2022; 37:1000-1011. [PMID: 35678318 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czac043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Globally, populations are ageing and the estimated number of hip fractures will increase from 1.7 million in 1990 to more than 6 million in 2050. The greatest increase in hip fractures is predicted in Low- and Middle‑Income Countries (LMICs), largely in the Asia-Pacific region where direct costs are expected to exceed $US15 billion by 2050. The aims of this qualitative study are to identify barriers to, and enablers of, evidence informed hip fracture care in LMICs, and to determine if the Blue Book standards, developed by the British Orthopaedic Association and British Geriatrics Society to facilitate evidence informed care of patients with fragility fractures, are applicable to these settings. This study utilised semi-structured interviews with clinical and administrative hospital staff to explore current hip fracture care in LMICs. Transcribed interviews were imported into NVivo 12 and analysed thematically. Interviews were conducted with 35 participants from eleven hospitals in five countries. We identified five themes-costs of care and the capacity of patients to pay, timely hospital presentation, competing demands on limited resources, delegation and defined responsibility, and utilisation of available data-and within each theme, barriers and enablers were distinguished. We found a mismatch between patient needs and provision of recommended hip fracture care, which in LMICs must commence at the time of injury. This study describes clinician and administrator perspectives of the barriers to, and enablers of, high quality hip fracture care in LMICs; results indicate that initiatives to overcome barriers (in particular, delays to definitive treatment) are required. While the Blue Book offers a starting point for clinicians and administrators looking to provide high quality hip fracture care to older people in LMICs, locally developed interventions are likely to provide the most successful solutions to improving hip fracture care.
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- The George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia
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- School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Injury Policy and Prevention Research, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Orthopedic Trauma Division and Arthroplasty Service, University of the Philippines Manila -Philippine General Hospital, The Philippines
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- Injury Division, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.,UNSW Sydney, Australia
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- John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Kolling Institute, Northern Sydney Local Health District and Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, St Leonards, Australia
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia
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- Falls Balance Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia; Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Australia
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- South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Liverpool, Australia; Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia
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- The George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Healt, UNSW Sydneyh, Australia.,School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Shorter acute hospital length of stay in hip fracture patients after surgery predicted by early surgery and mobilization. Arch Osteoporos 2021; 16:162. [PMID: 34718871 DOI: 10.1007/s11657-021-01027-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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UNLABELLED Time to surgery, early mobilization, fracture type, and ASA grades independently affect acute hospital length of stay after hip fracture surgery. Modifiable factors can be audited to reduce length of stay, and non-modifiable factors can be used for consideration of a tiered bundled payment reimbursement model. INTRODUCTION As hip fracture incidence rises with our ageing global population, there will be an increase in consumption of healthcare resources. We hypothesized that hospital management and patient factors can affect healthcare burden load. Using length of stay (LOS) as a surrogate for consumption, the aim of this study is to elucidate the effect of hospital management and patient-related factors on length of stay (LOS) for patients after hip fracture surgery. We studied modifiable and non-modifiable factors influencing LOS, and identification of these modifiable factors accords opportunities for mitigating these factors. METHODS This retrospective study examines hip fracture data from a large tertiary hospital in Singapore over the period of 2017 to 2020. Data collected on the electronic medical record included age, gender, race, marital status, payer type, ASA score, TTS, type of surgery, fracture type, POD1 mobilization, discharge position, and presence of pressure sores, and they were correlated with LOS using binary logistic regression on SAS. RESULTS A total of 1045 patients were included in this study with 704 females and 341 males. The mean age was 79.5 ± 8.57 years (range 60-105) with an average LOS 13.64 ± 10.0 days (range 2-114). On binary logistic regression, ASA and trochanteric fracture remains a significant non-modifiable factor for LOS with OR = 1.486 (95% CI 1.106, 1.996, p = 0.0086) and OR 1.522 (95% CI 1.149, 2.015, p = 0.0034) respectively. Significant modifiable factors were TTS > 48 h (OR = 1.819, 95% CI 1.205, 2.746, p = 0.0044) and POD1 mobilization (OR = 0.441, 95% CI 0.257, 0.756, p = 0.0029). CONCLUSIONS Our analysis showed TTS and POD1 are significant modifiable factors for LOS, and resources can be diverted towards them for the management of hip fracture patients and pre-empting the increasing load on our healthcare system.
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Kristensen PK, Röck ND, Christensen HC, Pedersen AB. The Danish Multidisciplinary Hip Fracture Registry 13-Year Results from a Population-Based Cohort of Hip Fracture Patients. Clin Epidemiol 2020; 12:9-21. [PMID: 32021467 PMCID: PMC6959215 DOI: 10.2147/clep.s231578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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AIM OF THE REGISTRY The aim of the Danish Multidisciplinary Hip Fracture Registry (DMHFR) is to collect data on processes of treatment, nursing care and rehabilitation as well as outcomes for patients with hip fracture in Denmark, and thereby monitor and improve the quality. STUDY POPULATION Hip fracture patients at age 65 or older that have undergone surgery with arthroplasty or internal fixation since 2004. MAIN VARIABLES DMHFR collects quality indicators and descriptive variables. Quality indicators include eight process performance measures within treatment, nursing care and rehabilitation, reflecting recommendations from the national clinical guideline for hip fracture patients, and three outcome measures including survival within 30-days, unplanned acute readmission within 30 days and reoperation within 2 years. Descriptive variables include a number of patient- and surgery-related characteristics. All data are collected prospectively. RESULTS By the end of 2018, the DMHFR included 86,438 hip fracture patients. Since 2006, all hospital departments in Denmark, treating patients with hip fracture, have reported improvement in quality of care and improvement in survival, and reoperation over time as well as high completeness of variables registration. CONCLUSION The DMHFR is a well-established nationwide clinical registry, which plays a key role for monitoring and improving hip fracture care in Denmark. The registry can further be linked to a range of other nationwide registries in order to answer a number of relevant clinical research questions.
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- Pia Kjær Kristensen
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Horsens Regional Hospital, Horsens, Denmark
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Danish Clinical Quality Program (RKKP) National Clinical Registries, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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Kristensen PK, Merlo J, Ghith N, Leckie G, Johnsen SP. Hospital differences in mortality rates after hip fracture surgery in Denmark. Clin Epidemiol 2019; 11:605-614. [PMID: 31410068 PMCID: PMC6643065 DOI: 10.2147/clep.s213898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Thirty-day mortality after hip fracture is widely used when ranking hospital performance, but the reliability of such hospital ranking is seldom calculated. We aimed to quantify the variation in 30-day mortality across hospitals and to determine the hospital general contextual effect for understanding patient differences in 30-day mortality risk. Methods Patients aged ≥65 years with an incident hip fracture registered in the Danish Multidisciplinary Fracture Registry between 2007 and 2016 were identified (n=60,004). We estimated unadjusted and patient-mix adjusted risk of 30-day mortality in 32 hospitals. We performed a multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy with patients nested within hospitals. We expressed the hospital general contextual effect by the median odds ratio (MOR), the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve and the variance partition coefficient (VPC). Results The overall 30-day mortality rate was 10%. Patient characteristics including high sociodemographic risk score, underweight, comorbidity, a subtrochanteric fracture, and living at a nursing home were strong predictors of 30-day mortality (area under the curve=0.728). The adjusted differences between hospital averages in 30-day mortality varied from 5% to 9% across the 32 hospitals, which correspond to a MOR of 1.18 (95% CI: 1.12-1.25). However, the hospital general context effect was low, as the VPC was below 1% and adding the hospital level to a single-level model with adjustment for patient-mix increased the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve by only 0.004 units. Conclusions Only minor hospital differences were found in 30-day mortality after hip fracture. Mortality after hip fracture needs to be lowered in Denmark but possible interventions should be patient oriented and universal rather than focused on specific hospitals.
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- Pia Kjær Kristensen
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N DK-8200, Denmark.,Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Regional Hospital Horsens, Horsens DK-8700, Denmark
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- Research Unit of Social Epidemiology, CRC, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö SE-20502, Sweden
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- Research Unit of Social Epidemiology, CRC, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö SE-20502, Sweden.,Research Unit for Chronic Diseases and E-Health, Section for Health Promotion and Prevention, Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg 2000, Denmark
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- Centre for Multilevel Modelling, School of Education, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK
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