In recent years, day surgery has developed rapidly in China. It is very important to ensure the medical quality and safety of day surgery patients post-discharge. However, there are no regulations, guidelines or policy on the quality and safety of medical care post-discharge in China yet. As one of the medical institutions which are the earliest to carry out day surgery in a standardized way in China, West China Hospital of Sichuan University has summarized the nearly 10 years’ experiences in day surgery, and formulated management norms after discharge of day surgery, including discharge evaluation, discharge guidance, follow-up after discharge, and emergency plan. This paper introduces the management norms for day surgery post-discharge from West China Hospital ofSichuan University, in order to provide reference for the management of the day surgery patients post-discharge medical care in China.
Day surgery has become an international and domestic medical service model, and it has received more and more attention from hospital administrators in terms of innovation and practical benefits for hospital management. However, from the perspective of standardization management, management norms have still been wanted. This paper introduces the general specification of clinical pathway management for day surgery in West China Hospital of Sichuan University, in order to provide reference for subsequent research, and hopes to provide certain standard models to provide reference for clinical pathway management practice.