Preparing You for Surgery

Submitted by cassandra.braun on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 18:16

A South San Francisco pre-admissions team developed this one-page, easy-to-use checklist to help prepare their patients for surgery.

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Status
Released
Region
Northern California
Tool Type
Checklists
Format
PDF
Keywords
checklist
presurgery
admissions
Topics
Service
Role
Frontline Managers
Frontline Physicians
Frontline Workers
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tips_presurgerychecklist
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Format:
PDF and Word DOC

Size:
1 page, 8½” x 11”

Intended Audience:
Teams working on improving the pre-surgery process for patients.

Best used:
Use this document as a model to consider how your facility might revamp the presurgery process and create your own one-page checklist for patients. This checklist was developed by a multidepartmental team in South San Francisco that wanted to streamline the presurgery process for patients. As a result of using it, 80 percent of patients are now being confirmed as pre-admitted 24 hours before surgery and the completeness and accuracy of admissions rate has hit 99.4 percent.

Read more about the process in the Fall 2010 Hank.

 

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Team develops surgery prep checklist.
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Region
Northern California
Media Type
tips (checklist, etc.)
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A South San Francisco pre-admissions team developed this one-page, easy-to-use checklist to help prepare their patients for surgery.

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Pre-admissions team develops easy-to-use checklist.

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Content Type
Tool
Content Goal
Instruct
Subject
Unit-based teams
Surgery
Admitting
Efficiency
Efficient processes
Customer service
Unit-based team concepts
Departments
Performance improvement
Affordability
Value Compass Concepts
Member services