Our Mission

“To provide the final chapter in an episode of Day Care surgery via a survey link sent to the patient; studying the results as applied to a diverse group, in order to lift the standard of care where possible and improve the economy of health care in Australia”

With a registry we can

Record outcomes

QA - Hospital
CPD - Anaesthetist
RPT - Health authorities

Improve outcomes

Better analgesia
Better PDNV
Reduce complications

Justify standards

To health departments
To the private funds
To the community

Initiate change

Patient management
Patient selection
Patient case mix

The Day Care Anaesthesia Registry

Completing the experience

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How it Works

1. Admit patient

Admit patient to system after PACU discharge
This can be manual or automatic via existing patient management system
Demographics collected via a web based form

2. Survey link

Patient specific survey link (URL) sent out 24 hours after discharge
Link sent via SMS &/or email (both preferred)
Re-sent if no response after 48 hours

3. Complete survey

Survey completed by patient OR
Survey declined OR
Survey expires if no response after 5 days

4. Alert & Report

Treating anaesthetist and senior hospital group notified if clinical alert detected
Patients de-identified after alerts actioned
Generate filtered comparative reports at any time

We've Come a Long Way

The DayCOR initiative has been established by the ACE Day Care Anaesthesia Special Interest Group

I became chairman of the ACE Day Care Anaesthesia Special Interest Group (SIG) some years ago when I “semi-retired” to the Sunshine Coast from Melbourne.

All my professional life I had wondered about the outcomes of my day care patients. VERY occasionally one would hear about an unsatisfactory outcome and hospital admission, usually from a surgical complication, but I was well aware that many patients struggled with pain relief and nausea at home, as well as the decision to call .…who?... when they feared a complication.

With time on my hands, and with the total support of the SIG executive, the outcomes of day care anaesthesia became a major study for the SIG.

It soon became obvious that there was little time for hospitals to provide the impetus to determine these outcomes. Telephone calls were an expensive time consumer and inefficient way to obtain results despite determined efforts.

Then along came the Clinical Anaesthesia Survey Tool (CAST) web server, which has provided the total solution.

At the time of writing we have surveyed over 8500 patients in a two hospital trial.

Ken, Feb 2019

Dr Ken Sleeman MB MS (Hons) FAMA FANZCA

Chairman ACE Day Care Anaesthesia SIG

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