Quality improvement in ambulatory surgery centers: a major national effort aimed at reducing infections and other surgical complications.

Davis KK, Mahishi V, Singal R, et al. J Clin Med Res. 2019;11:7-14.

Ambulatory surgery centers are increasingly utilized to provide surgical care to patients. Quality improvement approaches utilized in the inpatient setting may need to be modified or adapted to be applicable in the ambulatory surgery environment. Researchers describe efforts to implement a surgical safety checklist and infection control techniques across 665 ambulatory surgery centers recruited for the study. They identified several barriers and conclude that the unique aspects of ambulatory surgery centers must be taken into account when implementing quality improvement initiatives.

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