Inpatient and Surgical Care

Inpatient and Surgical Care provides evidence-based criteria, goals, care pathways and other decision-support tools, making it a valuable resource for proactive care management, case review and assessment of patients facing hospitalisation or surgery. Comprehensive and easy to use, this product helps facilitate optimal health outcomes, continuous quality improvement, and enhanced resource utilisation, even providing patient education information for organisations pursuing advanced care management initiatives.

• Care Pathways: Describe key care steps and milestones that move a patient toward optimal treatment and recovery. Presented in a "care pathway" table, the Optimal Recovery Course provides a daily assessment of level-of-care, plus clinical status, activity, routes, interventions and/or medications. This table details changes in each element, clearly documenting progress and variances.
• Extended Stay/Common Complications and Conditions: Addresses situations where the hospital stay is longer than the Goal Length of Stay. Includes brief descriptions of expected work-up or therapeutic regimen for these conditions, as well as estimates of extended-stay duration.
• Clinical Indications for Admission or Procedure: Presents discrete and actionable criteria valuable to efficient review and authorisation.
• Goal Length of Stay: Establishes an evidence-based, length-of-stay target, based on the best available medical research. With this, reviewers can confidently benchmark transition to alternate and more efficient levels of care.
• Annotated Bibliography, References and Footnotes: Milliman does not simply produce stand alone clinical evidence summaries, but integrates the current best evidence directly into the Care Guidelines. The Annotated Bibliography provides an interpretive summary of best-practice evidence, and grades the evidence for references cited.

This product is available in an International version.