Month: January 2023

ERAS® multidisciplinary teams can now leverage two tools in one (2 in 1) to improve perioperative care. This tool was created with 105 experts from 18 countries and includes ERAS® specific items as well as checklist items. It is not designed for use by all teams in all settings. It brings surgical teams together to ensure a shared understanding for the treatment of ERAS® patients.

A consensus statement, just published in JAMA Surgery, suggests that an enhanced recovery after surgery surgical safety checklist could be implemented in place of an existing surgical safety checklist, with the goal of improving adherence with the individual tools to improve outcomes.

Please read the full article here.

Encare provides the ERAS® Interactive Audit System for continuous quality audit and follow-up of the ERAS® initiatives, complemented by extensive training programs, including the ERAS® Implementation Program.

For details on how to get started with the ERAS® Interactive Audit System, please contact us.

The recently ERAS® Qualified team of University Hospitals of Ohio, Cleveland, USA made national news for their work.

“ERAS is a patient-centered and evidence-based approach to surgery that has reduced length of stay and costs, improved pain scores and quality and reduced narcotics use,” added Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, Chief Quality and Clinical Transformation Officer at UH.”

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