Constructing an office-based ambulatory surgery facility

The role of the nurse in office-based ambulatory surgery.

A nurse in an office-based surgery unit has responsibility not only for providing direct patient care but also for ensuring the safety and functioning of the operating room suite. The author describes the activities of the office-based surgery nurse throughout the perioperative process.

Guidelines for an Office-Based Surgical Facility: Quality not Bureaucracy

The laissez faire environment of private medical practice, however, has changed, due in part to pressures from thirdparty payors, health maintenance organizations and the federal government. Widespread adoption of managed care and its practices has caused a need for evaluation of care given in the surgeon's office and establish guidelines for the management of a surgical facility. Managed care ...

Patient safety in office-based surgery facilities: I. Procedures in the office-based surgery setting.

At the ASPS Annual Meeting in October of 2000, the ASPS Board of Directors convened the Task Force on Patient Safety in Officebased Surgery Facilities. The task force was assembled in the wake of several highly publicized patient deaths, increasing state legislative/regulatory activity, and a moratorium on all level II and level III office-based surgery in the State of Florida. The task force f...

Introduction to an office-based sinus surgery technique

Utilization of analgesic drugs in office-based ambulatory care: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1980-81.

The purpose of this report is to describe the utilization ‘analgesic drugs in office-based ambulatory care. The report ]bines the 1980 and 1981 findings of the National Ambula­ * y Medical Care Survey, an annual, sample survey of otTice­ based physicians conducted from 1973 through 198I by the National Center for Health Statistics. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS ) is schedul...