The implications of day surgery for in-patient hospital wards.
Day surgery is seen as cost-effective and it has reduced waiting list times. This paper shows, however, that its effects on in-patient wards, nurses' workload and emergency medical occupancy of surgical beds have given rise to unexpected problems and that nurses' roles in hospitals and in the community are affected by these changes.
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D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D001509:Bed Occupancy; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013527:Perioperative Nursing