Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental (CHLO) became ERAS® Qualified in the Colorectal Protocol on December 14, 2021. They were trained by Dr Manso and her team at the ERAS® Center of Excellence Hospital Beatriz Angelo, Lisbon.
Month: December 2021
Validation – ERAS® Interactive Audit System
Validation – ERAS® Interactive Audit System
A validation of Swedish hospitals applying ERAS® through the use of the ERAS® Interactive Audit System (EIAS) was recently published by Ulf Gustafsson et al in the World Journal of Surgery.
“Eight hospitals provided complete information for the evaluation, while four hospitals only allowed assessment of coverage and missing data. The average agreement for the assessed postoperative outcome variables was 96.5%. The accuracy was excellent for ‘length of hospital stay,’ ‘reoperation,’ and ‘any complications,’ but lower for other types of complications. Only a few variables had more than 5% missing data, and missingness was associated with hospital type and size. …This validation of the Swedish part of the international ERAS database suggests high patient coverage in EIAS and high agreement and limited missingness in clinically relevant variables.” Read more
Encare offers the ERAS® Interactive Audit System for continuous quality audit and follow-up of the ERAS® work and is available including Protocols for the surgical areas of Colorectal, Gynecology, Urology/Cystectomy, Pancreas, Liver, Bariatric, Head & Neck, Breast Reconstruction, Hip & Knee Arthroplasty and Thoracic-Lung Surgery.
Please contact us for details on how to be set up with the ERAS® Interactive Audit System.
ERAS® QUALIFIED – REGIONAL HOSPITAL QUEEN BEATRIX & OLVG, NETHERLANDS
At the end of 2021, two Dutch Colorectal Surgery teams from respectively the Regional Hospital Queen Beatrix and the One Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) were ERAS® Qualified. Both teams have shown significant improvement in patient care by applying the ERAS® Society Guidelines and monitoring compliance. They were trained by Dr Hans de Boer and ERAS® Nurse and Coach Henriëtte Smid-Nanninga from the ERAS® Center of Excellence Martini Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands.
