An Effective Approach to Improving Day-Case Rates following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Table 2

Changes made to gallbladder pathway following interim audit in 2008.

(i) All day-case cholecystectomies on morning list or first on afternoon list
(ii) Default to day-case unless social reasons, deranged liver function or anaesthetist/surgeon choice
(iii) Remove BMI and previous upper abdominal surgery as day-case criteria
(iv) Increase patient referral through “gallbladder clinic”