Aim: To find clinical indicators for benchmarking out of a nationwide quality assurance programme Methods: Data from 153 000 cases of the quality assurance programme AQS1 were electronically analysed for the most frequent procedures in 10 medical specialties. Results: Hospitalisation rate for the most frequent procedures was below 0.6%. The search gave data for the time of inability to work and...

All prosthetic vascular accesses for hemodialysis performed in an ambulatory surgical setting between January 1992 and December 1996 were reviewed retrospectively. During this period, 400 out of the 450 vascular accesses with PTFE grafts (88.9%) were performed as outpatient cases. All operations were under local aesthesia without premedication. There were no postoperative deaths. Early complica...

OBJECTIVES An evaluation is made of the surgical activity in the context of the Master of Oral Surgery (Madrid Complutense University, Madrid, Spain), together with an analysis of social demand in ambulatory oral surgery. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive statistical analysis (frequency and contingency tables) is made of the different parameters relating to the activity carried out in this postgradu...