Future endeavors in ambulatory spine surgery

Ambulatory Spine Surgery: A Survey Study

Study Design Cross-sectional study. Objective To assess the current practices of spine surgeons performing ambulatory surgery in the United States. Methods An electronic survey was distributed to members of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. Data were initially examined in a univariate manner; variables with a p value < 0.25 were entered into a multiple logistic reg...

KASCADE-Grande Review, Recent Results, Future Endeavors

Team working in intensive care: current evidence and future endeavors.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW It has recently been argued that the future of intensive care medicine will rely on high quality management and teamwork. Therefore, this review takes an organizational psychology perspective to examine the most recent research on the relationship between teamwork, care processes, and patient outcomes in intensive care. RECENT FINDINGS Interdisciplinary communication within ...

Ambulatory surgery in Spain

In Spain, ambulatory surgery (AS) is called major ambulatory surgery to emphasise that the focus is on procedures previously or still conducted in an in-patient setting with overnight stay, and that endoscopies and minor surgical excisions are excluded (these procedures were traditionally performed as office procedures). According to the guidelines on major ambulatory surgery produced by the Sp...

Building upon existing evidence to shape future research endeavors.

PURPOSE The identification, retrieval, and critical evaluation of biomedical literature to inform the development of future research efforts are discussed. SUMMARY A literature search should be designed with the consideration of the desired scope of the information, discipline, or therapeutic area; the nature of the publication or presentation; the ease of full-text documents; and the frequen...