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Ambulatory Orthopaedic Surgery - Patient Education and Cost of Care

Katja Heikkinen, Sanna Salanterä, Reima Suomi, Annika Lindblom, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Ambulatory Orthopaedic Surgery - Patient Education and Cost of Care. Orthopaedic Nursing 30(1), 20–28, 2011.

Abstract:

PURPOSE: To describe and compare ambulatory orthopaedic
surgery patients’ reported cost of care (out-of-pocket costs,
use of time, and consultations with healthcare organizations)
and nurses’ cost of care (use of time and consultations with
other professionals such as other nurses, physicians, and
anesthesiologists) when patients receive 2 different types of
patient education (Internet-based or face-to-face).

METHOD: Pretest/posttest design.

SAMPLE: Random assignment of all ambulatory orthopaedic
surgery patients in a university hospital in Finland.

INTERVENTION: The experimental group received Web-based
patient education and the control group received face-to-face
patient education.

OUTCOMES OF INTEREST: Financial and time costs.

FINDINGS: Pre-, intra-, and postoperative costs did not differ between
the groups. However, Internet-based education was
more time-consuming for the patient and face-to-face education
was more time-consuming for the nurse. There were no differences
between the groups in patients’ use of consultations of
healthcare professionals. Nurses’ consultations were few and did
not differ between the groups. The small number of patients’
and nurses’ consultations indicates that patients in both education
methods had enough knowledge to deal with the surgery.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jHeSaSuLiLe11a,
  title = {Ambulatory Orthopaedic Surgery - Patient Education and Cost of Care},
  author = {Heikkinen, Katja and Salanterä, Sanna and Suomi, Reima and Lindblom, Annika and Leino-Kilpi, Helena},
  journal = {Orthopaedic Nursing},
  volume = {30},
  number = {1},
  pages = {20–28},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {Internet-based patient education, orhopaedic surgery, cost-benefit analysis},
}

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