Striving to improve patient care: Enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) provide hospitals with patient-centered protocols and standards to improve the safety and quality of care for patients undergoing ...

In this cohort study, which involved 832 patients undergoing pancreatic resection surgery, the researchers investigated how making incremental modifications to post-surgery procedures affected the ...

In this cohort study, which involved 832 patients undergoing pancreatic resection surgery, the researchers investigated how making incremental modifications to post-surgery procedures affected the ...

Enhanced Recovery Programs (ERPs) are standardized, evidence-based, and comprehensive practices that facilitate better recovery and surgical outcomes for surgical patients. Chu highlighted that ERPs ...

In the 1990s, Dr. Henrik Kehlet introduced the concept of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), pioneering multimodal surgical care. Initially applied to patients undergoing colonic surgery, ERAS ...

Pharmacist-led deprescribing in older adults with cancer in ambulatory clinics: A sustainable QI initiative. Retrospective review of clinical factors influencing germline testing in patients with ...

Enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) provide hospitals with the highest-quality resources to improve patient care for surgery, but many hospitals still struggle to successfully implement these programs ...

UAB Gastrointestinal Surgery Division Director Daniel Chu, M.D., has played a crucial role in the widespread implementation of Enhanced Recovery Programs (ERPs) in the Department of Surgery and beyond ...