The application of clinical pathways in laparoscopic cholecystectomy

作     者：Min Zhang Shu-Yang Zhou Mei-Yuan Xing Jian Xu Xiao-Xiao Shi Shu-Sen Zheng 

作者机构：Department of General SurgeryFirst Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine LibraryFirst Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine 

出 版 物：《Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International》 (国际肝胆胰疾病杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第13卷第4期

页      面：348-353页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100210[医学-外科学(含：普外、骨外、泌尿外、胸心外、神外、整形、烧伤、野战外)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by a grant from the National Key Technology Research Development Program of China(2008BAH27B06) 

主　　题：laparoscopic cholecystectomy clinical pathways complications 

摘      要：BACKGROUND： Laparoscopic cholecystectomy（LC） is one of the most frequent abdominal surgical procedures. The present meta-analysis aimed to estimate the clinical effects of implementing a clinical pathway for LC compared with standard medical care by evaluating the length of hospital stay,costs, and the outcomes of patients undergoing *** SOURCES： Data were extracted from the following databases： PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Chinese Medical Citation Index（CMCI）,Chinese Medical Current Contents（CMCC）, and China BioMedical Literature Database（CBM）. We also searched the reference lists of the relevant articles and conference *** randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials published from 1980 to 2013 were included. We did not set restrictions on language and country of publications. All of the data were evaluated and analyzed by two reviewers independently with RevMan software（version 5.0）.RESULTS： A total of 7 trials with 1187 patients were *** patients who underwent LC with clinical pathway had shorter hospital stay [weighted mean difference=-1.90, 95%CI：-2.65 to-1.16, P〈0.00001], lower cost [standard mean difference=-0.69, 95% CI：-0.82 to-0.56, P〈0.00001], and better questionnaires based satisfaction with the medical ***： The applications of the clinical pathway for LC effectively reduced hospital stay and total costs. However,there was insufficient evidence for proving the differences in postoperative complications. Future research should focus on patient outcomes and identify the mechanisms underlying the effect of the clinical pathway.