Establishment and cost analysis of an office surgical suite

JC Way, BA Culham - Canadian journal of surgery, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The objective of this study was to show that minor operative procedures done in a
nonhospital setting can be provided more efficiently than those done in hospital and are …

The workload of a surgical unit in a district general hospital.

RA Cobb, RJ Baigrie, H Reece-Smith… - Annals of the Royal …, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A 3-month prospective study of the workload of a surgical unit in a district general hospital
was performed to identify the relationship between outpatient work, admissions to hospital …

The impact of an ambulatory surgical service in a community hospital

HA Laffaye - Archives of Surgery, 1989 - jamanetwork.com
• The purpose of this study was to quantify the savings accrued from shifting surgical cases
from an inpatient to an outpatient setting. There was an increase in the total number of …

[CITATION][C] Do preoperative clinics improve operating room efficiency?

SP Fischer - Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and …, 1999 - Elsevier
H EALTH CARE CHANGES in the United States in the last decade have mandated close
evaluation of the efficiency and cost benefit of many hospital programs. Economic changes …

Survey. Surgery centers continue making inroads.

JA Henderson - Modern Healthcare, 1990 - europepmc.org
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Ambulatory surgical unit: Alternative to hospitalization

EC Saltzstein, CB Sullivan, EM Patterson… - Archives of …, 1974 - jamanetwork.com
Hospitalization costs are the prime reason for increasing health care delivery costs. The
initial 15-month experience (633 patients) with an ambulatory surgical unit in an urban …

The growth of ambulatory surgery centres in the United States

GD Durant, CJ Battaglia - Ambulatory Surgery, 1993 - Elsevier
This paper looks at the development of surgery centres in the USA and the factors which
have had an important impact on their growth and future. This includes growth trends and …

Ambulatory surgery in an HMO: a study of costs, quality of care and satisfaction

SD Marks, MR Greenlick, AV Hurtado, JD Johnson… - Medical Care, 1980 - JSTOR
This study is a retrospective examination of data from a prepaid group practice that
introduced a change in surgical services so that about 35 per cent of patients having surgery …

Development of an independent outpatient surgical center

WA Reed, JL Ford - International anesthesiology clinics, 1976 - journals.lww.com
In recent years, countless appeals and recommendations have been made to physicians
concerning the need to reduce the cost of medical care. Calls for innovations have come not …

Freestanding surgical care facilities

WA REED - International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1982 - journals.lww.com
The idea of a surgical center independent of a hospital was introduced by Ford and Reed in
1969 [3], and in February of 1970 it became a reality with the opening of the Surgicenter in …