Assessment of a Standardized Pre-Operative Telephone Checklist Designed to Avoid Late Cancellation of Ambulatory Surgery: The AMBUPROG Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of a standardized pre-operative telephone checklist on the rate of late cancellations of ambulatory surgery (AMBUPROG trial). DESIGN:Multicenter, two-arm, parallel-group, open-label randomized controlled trial. SETTING:11 university hospital ambulatory surgery units i...

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Main Authors: Sonia Gaucher, Isabelle Boutron, Florence Marchand-Maillet, Gabriel Baron, Richard Douard, Jean-Pierre Béthoux, AMBUPROG Group Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4734771?pdf=render