title: [Ambulatory surgery in the hospital: decision between national health insurance responsibility and personal job security].
abstract: The aim of outpatient surgery is to reduce costs in the health service. However, the number of surgeons working in a surgical department is dependent upon the numbers of occupied beds. This creates an existential conflict in which, by reducing the occupancy of beds in order to take on more outpatient cases, surgeons are putting their own jobs on the line. Possible solutions are here discussed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Probst
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Böhm
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brug
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics*; D001509:Bed Occupancy / Q000191:economics*; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D003363:Cost Control; D013502:General Surgery; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D010819:Physician's Role; D000078329:Workforce
vernacular_title: Ambulante Chirurgie am Krankenhaus: Entscheidung zwischen Staatsbürgerpflicht und Selbsterhalt.