Purpose Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience
measures (PREMs) are increasingly recognized as important health care quality indicators …

Introduction Telemedicine (TM) use accelerated out of necessity during the COVID-19
pandemic, but the utility of TM within the pediatric surgery population is unclear. This study …

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: At our institution, patients undergoing selected operative
procedures are referred to a protocol for telephone follow-up by surgical specialty nurses …

Background The value of routine postoperative visits after general surgery remains unclear.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of routine postoperative visits after …

Traditional 4-to 6-week clinic follow-up after pediatric ambulatory surgery does not rapidly
identify complications and is often a burden for parents. Telephone follow-up offers support …

Purpose The factors affecting outpatient follow-up (OFU) after pediatric surgery have not
been well studied. We evaluate factors impacting OFU and the effect of OFU in pediatric …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the benefit of planned specialist follow up appointments
after elective inpatient surgery. DESIGN: This was a controlled trial, using repeated alternate …

Background Paediatric day case surgeries (DCSs) are associated with minimal
complications therefore the post-operative follow-up visit usually serves to calm anxious …

PURPOSE: Multiple visits for the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up of straightforward
surgical problems are inconvenient, can result in lost work for the parents, and missed …

Background It is unknown whether replacing clinic follow-up visits with telephone follow-up
for low-risk core emergency general surgery (cEGS) procedures is safe. We measured the …