Abstract
There is concern about the burden day-stay surgery creates upon community services. We have followed 128 children and 38 adults undergoing day-stay tonsillectomy and a similar cohort of adults and children undergoing tonsillectomy as inpatients and looked at the demands made on general practice and casualty services over the 2 weeks after discharge. Twelve adults (18%) and four children (3%) required overnight admission after day-stay surgery. Within the first 2 weeks, 27 adults (48.2%) and 62 children (50%) visited their GP and 13 adults (23.2%) and six children (4.8%) visited the casualty department. There was no statistically significant difference for either adults or children when comparing the day-stay and inpatient cohorts. Adult day-stay tonsillectomy is associated with a high admission rate. Both adult and paediatric tonsillectomy lead to considerable demand for general practice and casualty services, but this demand is high regardless of whether the day-stay or inpatient route is chosen.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 440-443 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Volume | 78 |
Issue number | 5 |
State | Published - Sep 1996 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Community care
- Day-stay surgery
- Tonsillectomy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery