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May 27, 2025, 16:36
Gertjan Rasschaert: How We Can Reduce the Length of Hospital Stay for GI Oncology Patients
Gertjan Rasschaert, Medical Doctor and Consultant in Gastrointestinal Oncology and Gastroenterology at UZ Leuven, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“This year, we also have an (online only) ASCO 2025 abstract in ‘Care Delivery and Quality Care’. How can we reduce length of hospital stay for our GI oncology patients?
Together with Antoon Billiet and Dorien Geussens, we started doing daily ‘scrums’ at our GI oncology ward during our year as a resident (2022-2023). This project was initiated by our UZ Leuven management department (Nancy Vansteenkiste and wim tambeur) with the support of Chris Verslype. Our ward served as a test case for further rollout under the guidance of Christiaan Franz and Paul Giepmans.
Our fierce daily scrums led to a reduction in lenght of stay (LOS) of more than 10%. Without an observed increase of the readmission rate. After graduating and thus the rotation of new residents, the effect proved durable, suggesting an acquired change of mindset in daily clinical routine patientcare. (Wouter De Haes)
As such scrum is a useful tool to optimize the use of bed capacity by reducing days in which the patient is in hospital with no or limited value, and to prevent undesirable bedspacing (‘alternative patients’) at risk for suboptimal care and potential harm. But what exactly is a scrum? You read it below.”
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