Abstracts by key term: Outpatient operations
Outpatient Surgeries: The Patient is the Focus. A large proportion of the most frequently performed inpatient surgeries in Germany can be performed on an outpatient basis without any disadvantages for the patient. This would result in advantages for the patient, the physician, and the payers. The patient would benefit from a complete course of treatment with the same trusted physician, shorter downtimes, [...]
23.09.2012
For years, numerous national and international publications have confirmed that in Germany, by international comparison, too few medically necessary operations are performed on an outpatient basis (Brökelmann 2007: 5; Toftgaard/Parmentier 2006: 42-48). Although it is known that some of these deviations can also be explained by different organizational and financial factors in the respective countries, the deviations in some operations are still too clear for these explanations to be used as the sole justification for the differences (Busse/Wörtz 2009: 52 – 54; Oberender & Partner 2010: 26 – 28).