Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways Using an Implementation Framework

Importance

Enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) have the potential to reduce length of hospital stay, costs, and complications following surgery but can be challenging to implement.

Objective

To examine the body of literature on ERPs to assess how authors describe barriers and facilitators of ERP implementation and identify, in aggregate, the best practices that should be considered utilizing the Consolidated Framework for...