[Outpatient surgery-Patient selection and perioperative safety]

For more than 30 years outpatient surgery has been established in Germany in a patient-safe manner at approved outpatient surgery locations in the specified diagnostic scope and with risk-adjusted indications. As part of the Federal Government's outpatient strategy, the range of operations and the number of interventions will increase. This development requires special attention to compliance with patient safety-relevant treatment standards and the overdue implementation of sector-independent quality assurance indicators. Patient satisfaction and, above all, patient safety are particularly important test criteria for the quality of results in outpatient, usually elective procedures.