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. 2023 Nov-Dec;50(6):484-488.
doi: 10.1097/WON.0000000000001020.

Influence of Preoperative Educational Intervention for Patients Undergoing Fecal Ostomy Surgery: A Comparison Cohort Study

Ana María García-Cabrera  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Fernando de la Portilla de Juan  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Laura Navarro-Morales  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Sebastián Ribera García  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , María Del Carmen Durán Ventura  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Inés Fernández Luque  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Francisco Javier Padillo-Ruiz  1   2   3   4   5   6   7
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Influence of Preoperative Educational Intervention for Patients Undergoing Fecal Ostomy Surgery: A Comparison Cohort Study

Ana María García-Cabrera et al. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2023 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

Purpose: This aim of this study was to compare the impact on hospital stay and short-term overall complications prior to and following the introduction of an outpatient preoperative ostomy education program to an existing inpatient ostomy education program.

Design: A comparison cohort study.

Subjects and setting: One hundred thirty-eight consecutive patients undergoing ostomy surgery were included. One group (n = 65, 47%) was given an experimental preoperative ostomy education intervention, along with standard care including a postoperative educational intervention during the initial hospital course. A second group (n = 73, 53%) received the same standardized education in the postoperative period. Data were collected from a single tertiary center located in Seville, Spain, during a 12-month period between July 2014 and June 2015.

Methods: Data were collected in 2 phases. Data from participants undergoing postoperative (standard) education were collected retrospectively. Data for the group receiving preoperative education were collective prospectively. Outcome variables were postoperative length of stay, surgical complications (severity was assessed by the Clavien-Dindo grading system), subsequent interventions, and readmission rates.

Results: Analysis indicated no differences between the average length of postoperative hospital stay (12.32 days in the preoperative education group vs 12.76 days in the postoperative education group, P = .401). In contrast, overall complications, mortality, and readmission rates were significantly higher in the preoperative education program group (P = .027, P = .047, and P = .046, respectively).

Conclusions: Delivering a standardized educational intervention during the preoperative period versus postoperative education delivery during the ostomy surgery hospital course did not reduce length of stay. Analysis indicated that overall complications, mortality, and readmission rates were significantly higher in the preoperative education program group but we hypothesize that intervening factors may have influenced these outcomes.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03995719.

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