Reducing Waiting Time for facial Fracture Surgery by a New Surgical Queue
Keywords:
facial fracture, surgical queuingAbstract
Objectives : The study aimed to compare the number of waiting days for facial surgery and length of stay in hospital between the traditional and the new queuing management.
Method : A retrospective non-randomized cohort study has been done. Samplings were patients with facial fracture requiring surgery at Prapokklao Hospital and were divided into 2 groups – the first, control group of 97 patients with traditional queuing based on the surgeon’s schedule from July 1, to December 31, 2020 and the latter, the experimental group of 83 patients with new way queuing pool from January 1 to June 30, 2021. The differences between the 2 groups were compared with statistical Mann-Whitney U test, statistically significant level was set at P value was less than 0.05(P<0.05).
Results : The mean age of the control group was 34.8±15.3 years and the latter was 36.1±14.8 years. The mean of waiting time for surgery in the control group was 4.9±4.2 days whereas the latter was 4.5±3.3 days (P-value = 0.81), the mean of length of stay in the first group was 9.6±9 days and the other was 7.4±4.6 days (P value = 0.20)
Conclusion : The scheduling of facial fracture patients with the pool queue can reduce waiting time for surgery and length of stay in the hospital comparing to the traditional management with no statistically significant level.
Keywords : facial fracture, surgical queuing
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