Effective analgesia and decreased length of stay for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: Effectiveness of a clinical pathway.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of a clinical pathway (CP) on length of stay (LOS), complications, readmission rates, and patient satisfaction for patients undergoing a radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A standardized CP for all patients undergoing RRP was developed and implemented. Post-operatively, patients enrolled in the CP received oral ibuprofen and acetaminophen analgesia, with oral and subcutaneous narcotics available for breakthrough pain. Patients enrolled in the CP were compared to a pre-CP historical cohort. Patients were asked to complete a short, validated satisfaction questionnaire 10 days post-operatively. RESULTS: Sixty-eight consecutive patients underwent a RRP following CP implementation and were compared to a historical cohort of 147 pre-CP patients. Median LOS decreased by 50% (4 days versus 2 days, p < 0.0001) while complication and readmission rates were unchanged. Patient satisfaction was high in all domains. Overall, 29.4% of patients treated within the CP required no narcotic analgesia during their admission. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of a CP for patients undergoing a RRP is a simple and effective method for reducing LOS without compromising complication, readmission rates or patient satisfaction.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".