A primer on risk management for ambulatory surgery.
This article shows that the trend for many types of surgery to move outside the inpatient hospital setting to ambulatory settings has implications for risk management in the areas of patient selection, patient education, physician credentialing, communication and documentation, discharge planning, and patient follow-up. This article identifies risk exposures in ambulatory surgery and presents strategies for mitigating these risks.
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D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*; D000758:Anesthesia; D003406:Credentialing; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D007258:Informed Consent; D007318:Inservice Training; D008318:Malpractice; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D018579:Patient Selection; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States