Abstract：
BACKGROUND:Choosing Wisely Australia is an initiative aimed at reducing the incidence of unnecessary investigations. This study is an audit of Northern Health's adherence to two Choosing Wisely recommendations in the context of inguinal hernia repair. Recommendation 1: Avoid routinely performing pre-operative investigations in patients, but instead order in response to patient factors, signs and symptoms, disease or planned surgery. Recommendation 2: Do not order ultrasound for clinically apparent inguinal hernias. METHODS:Records of 264 patients who underwent elective inguinal hernia repair at Northern Health in 2016 were reviewed. RESULTS:Recommendation 1: Results demonstrated over-ordering of coagulation studies. Thirty-four percent of patients received coagulation studies, 86% of which were unindicated. There was better adherence to Choosing Wisely guidelines for other investigations: 38% of patients received a full blood examination (42% unindicated), 38% received a urea, electrolytes and creatinine (14% unindicated), 7% received a glycated haemaglobin (0% unindicated) and 38% received an electrocardiogram (11% unindicated). Recommendation 2: Seventy percent (n = 186) of patients received an ultrasound of which 25% (n = 46) had a documented indication. Correlation with surgical findings showed a positive predictive value of 95.6% and sensitivity of 97.8% for ultrasound. CONCLUSION:Recommendation 1: Most pre-operative coagulation studies were unindicated, while adherence to Choosing Wisely guidelines was better for pre-operative full blood examination, urea, electrolytes and creatinine, glycated haemaglobin and electrocardiogram. Recommendation 2: The majority of patients received an inguinal hernia ultrasound, most of which had no documented indication.
journal_name
ANZ J Surgjournal_title
ANZ journal of surgeryauthors
Chmiel E,Pearson K,Mori Kdoi
10.1111/ans.15495subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-12-01 00:00:00pages
1626-1630issue
12eissn
1445-1433issn
1445-2197journal_volume
89pub_type
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