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KMID : 0386619980200000143
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Journal of Red Cross College Nursing
1998 Volume.20 No. 0 p.143 ~ p.157
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Development of the Critical Pathway for Patients with Appendectomy
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to develop a critical pathway for case management for patients with appendectomy.
For this study, a conceptcal f ramwork was developed through a review of the literature and the standard medical code book in Korea. In order to identify the overall service contents required by these patients and to draw up a preliminary critical pathway, 35 cases of medical records of patients with appendectomy between 1, July to 31, July at the J General Hospital in Seoul were analyzed.
The results of this study are summarized as follows;
1. The vertical axis of the critical pathway includes the following nine items ; assessments, medications, injections, anesthesia, operation & treatment, tests, diets, activities, education & discharge planning and the horizontal axis includes the time from the first day of hospitalization to discharge.
2. Analysis of the 35 medical records indicated that the average length of stay was 6 days with the average length of stay from hospitalization day to operation day being 1 day, and the average length of stay from operation day to discharge day was 4 days.
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