DayCasePath

Who uses it

Built for: General Surgery · Paediatrics

Reads

Cases, observations, pre-anaesthesia assessments

Writes

Pathway states, discharge scores, ERAS milestones and variances, paediatric discharge checks

Never

It does not discharge on an incomplete score or an unticked criterion, and it sets no protocol — the bundles and the discharge checklist are the department’s own, with their source.

Access

Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who

Your data

Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: All clinical data stays in the record.

In the product

1. 1Put the case on the pathwayPatient, procedure, and the escort who will take them home — named, because a day case without one is not a day case.
2. 2Admit, then operateThe pathway follows the surgical case, so nobody types the operation twice.
3. 3Score for dischargeModified PADSS — vitals, ambulation, nausea, surgical bleeding — recorded rather than felt. An unplanned overnight admission is recorded as exactly that.
4. 4Send them home, and ring tonightWith the escort named, and the same-night check-in on the board until somebody makes it. A call that finds a problem is a row: what the problem was, and what happened next.
5. 5Follow the bundle, and the child’s checklistOn ERAS, put a case — day case or inpatient — on the department’s own bundle: each milestone comes due hours after the operation and is recorded met or not, a late one with its reason, cases behind first. On Paediatric, flag a child’s day case with the guardian’s consent, record the anaesthetist’s fasting instructions given to the parent, and tick the unit’s own discharge criteria — the child goes home only when every one is ticked.