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A comparison of hospital-integrated and freestanding ambulatory-surgery programs. Their uses of selected procedures
1Hospital Executive Council, Syracuse, NY.
Hospital Topics
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
For a variety of good reasons, the use of ambulatory surgery in the U.S. grew significantly during the 1980s. Both hospital-integrated and freestanding outpatient programs were developed, although a general lack of research on ambulatory surgery has not confirmed either approach's impact. Using the programs of Syracuse, New York, the author compares the two programs' volumes of procedures performed and each program's standing within the entire ambulatory-surgery community.
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