Background and aims In modern health care systems, care providers face ever new
challenges with regard to quality and cost of care, as well as to satisfaction and training of …

OBJECTIVES: To discuss the emergence of robotic surgery in gynecologic oncology and
describe the growth of robotic surgery in a university medical center and a community based …

Background Outpatient laparoscopic cholecystectomy (OLC) may decrease the use of
hospital resources and save costs. In the current study, the effect of implementing a clinical …

Background One strategy to reduce the consumption of resources associated to specific
procedures is to utilize clinical pathways, in which surgical care is standardized and preset …

BACKGROUND: Evidence-based guidelines recommend cholecystectomy during initial
hospitalization for complicated gallstone disease. Previous studies and quality initiative data …

Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a safe ambulatory procedure in appropriately
selected patients; however, day case rates remain low. The objective of this systematic …

BACKGROUND:: Clinical pathways are increasingly adopted to streamline care after
elective surgery. Here, we describe novel clinical pathways developed for endocrine …

Background Findings have shown that laparoscopic incisional hernia repair is superior to
conventional open techniques. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the results …

Many initiatives have been introduced in the past decades to standardize and improve
clinical perioperative care and thereby improve patient care. Clinical pathways (also known …

Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the most frequent abdominal
surgical procedures. The present meta-analysis aimed to estimate the clinical effects of …