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Physician leadership and system redesign needed to scale same-day discharge hip and knee arthroplasty

Bert Lauwers, Jon Hummel, Mark Glube and Fred Go
CMAJ April 14, 2020 192 (15) E408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.74921
Bert Lauwers
Executive vice president medical and clinical, Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough, Ont.
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Chief of surgery and orthopedic consultant, Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough, Ont.
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Interim chief of anesthesia, Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough, Ont.
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Director of surgery, Scarborough Health Network, Scarborough, Ont.
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We share Bodrogi and colleagues’ vision that same-day discharge will become common following total hip and knee arthroplasty.1 Three keys for success are physician leadership, system redesign (integration) and adoption of best perioperative practices.

First, physician support will be critical in leading the design, implementation and evaluation of same-day discharge programs. Some physicians, including those in primary care, will need to evolve traditional patterns of referral, triaging, assessing and caring for same-day arthroplasty patients. Regionally centralized patient intake, nurse practitioner-led assessment clinics, anesthesiologist-led preoperative optimization and virtual care to monitor patients discharged home are examples of where evolution of care is needed.

Second, system redesign in Ontario will be supported by the new Ontario Health Teams (OHTs), which will be responsible for providing a continuum of care. The integration of primary and specialty orthopedic care with outpatient rehabilitation centres and home and community care will evolve in the context of same-day discharge. The integrated OHT will need to plan for preoperative optimization and postoperative home visits including physical therapy. This need could be minimized by adopting best practices such as the provision of exercise programs started well in advance of surgery (prehabilitation).

Third, enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is an “evidence-based multidisciplinary perioperative care pathway” that includes the use of customized anesthetic techniques and pain management strategies to promote early patient mobilization while reducing complication rates of surgery. It is a leading best practice and requires the creation of multidisciplinary perioperative teams in the pre-, intra- and postoperative phases of care. The benefits are myriad.

As many as 55% of current patients hospitalized postoperatively may be eligible for same-day discharge.2 Patients endorsed same-day discharge 87% of the time,3 and complication rates were comparable between patients who were discharged the same day and those who remained in hospital.4,5 Finally, system cost saving was estimated at 32.7%.6

As Paul Batalden has said, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the outcomes it gets.” Physician leadership needs to redesign our system to ensure success for same-day discharge following hip and knee arthroplasty.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests: None declared.

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