title: Integrated preadmission services and case management: the foundation for achievable patient outcomes in a hospital-based ambulatory surgery setting.
abstract: The forces of technology and changing payor requirements continue to move many surgical procedures to the ambulatory setting. The American Hospital Association's Hospital Statistics, 1991-92 indicates that more than half of all surgeries are now performed on an ambulatory or outpatient basis. Hospital-based ambulatory surgery programs must learn to fully integrate many of their traditional inpatient hospital services with the needs of the ambulatory surgery patient by developing preadmission services, as well as by adopting case management theory to continue to deliver quality ambulatory care.
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authors.lastname: Lauffer
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010343:Patient Admission; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*