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A hospital can save $1 million a year if just 450 surgical patients used Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster (PFS) and left the hospital 1.3 days sooner. An additional cost savings comes from patients leaving the recovery room sooner because their vital signs are stable 1-3 hours sooner. The cost savings are documented by the research studies summarized below.
Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster Workshops are offered at hospitals including:
At the Lahey Clinic, a Tufts University Medical School teaching hospital, a randomized controlled study by Merrie Watters, RN, MSN, David Schoetz, MD, FACS, past Chief of Colorectal Surgery and Judith Feldman, MD, Senior Internist, Dept. of General Medicine, with 56 patients having colorectal surgery showed that patients using Peggy Huddleston's book, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, Relaxation tape and a one-hour workshop were significantly calmer before surgery and left the hospital 1.6 days sooner saving the hospital $3,200 per patient. On the second day at home, patients were using 60% less pain medication than the control group.
A randomized controlled study with 44 patients having total knee-joint replacement at the New England Baptist Hospital, a Tufts University Medical School teaching hospital, documented that patients using the book, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, the Relaxation tape and one-hour workshop were calmer the day before surgery and left the hospital 1.3 days sooner than the control group. Benjamin E. Bierbaum, MD, former Chief of Orthopedic Surgery was a principal investigator.
At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching Hospital, a study with 23 hospitalized patients not having surgery documented that patients using Peggy Huddleston's Relaxation tape twice a day for 20-minutes for two days had a reduction in anxiety, used less pain medication and an improvement in heart rate variability. Russell S. Phillips, MD, Chief of Medicine was a co-investigator. The findings were published in Journal of Alternative and Complementary, March 2007.
A meta-analysis of 191 studies with 8,600 patients showed that patients who prepared for surgery had less blood loss, used less pain medication, fewer complications and a shorter length of stay. For patients facing chemotherapy, you also learn how they can lessen side effects.
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Summary of research for Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster
Research study of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster at Lahey Clinic with colorectal surgery
Research study of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster at New England Baptist Hospital with knee joint replacement
Pilot study of Peggy Huddleston's Relaxation tape with hospitalized medical patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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American Holistic Medical Association
Association of Women Surgeons (print version)
Anesthesiologist, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
NY University School of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine