Ten year performance of Ambulatory Surgery in England / Diez años de actividad de la Cirugía Mayor Ambulatoria en Inglaterra

ABSTRACT

Introduction: The development of a new cohort of procedures suitable for Ambulatory Surgery has been recently mooted by the International Association of Ambulatory Surgery.This paper describes a ten year audit of performance of such operations in England, calculating rates for admission, treatment and discharge over the same calendar day. Methods: Data were extrapolated from NHS Digital information for the years 2006-7 to 2016-17, by subtracting emergency operations from the total number of finished consultant episodes, and then calculating the ambulatory surgery rate. Results: There has been a consistent increase in the rates of ambulatory surgery for the periods evaluated. Procedures can be divided into "mature", "rapidly rising" and "low threshold" categories, dependent upon their relative rates. Conclusion: Retrospective audit of ambulatory surgery performance allows assessment of national status to facilitate further development of the speciality

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