Implementation of an integrated preoperative care pathway and regional electronic clinical portal for preoperative assessment

Table 1 Elective BADS procedures, inpatients, day-cases and outpatients NHS GCC Health-Board, (source: ISD, Operations and Procedures - Hospital Care, Sept. 2012)

Outcome indicator	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11^∗	2011/12^∗
Elective BADS procedures	53,890	56,101	57,666	69,874	76,326
BADS procedures as inpatient	16,908	17,278	15,802	15,171	14,373
BADS procedures as day cases	32,394	34,050	35,948	36,504	37,389
BADS procedures as outpatients	4,588	4,773	5,916	18,199	24,564
Percentage BADS procedures as day cases or outpatients ^∗	68.6%	69.2%	72.6%	78.3%	81.2%
Percentage BADS procedures as day cases, excl. outpatients ^∗	65.7%	66.3%	69.5%	70.6%	72.2%

^*NOTE: ISD remark on data quality/completeness: ‘outpatient figures recording levels have increased since October 2011’.

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