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The Next Frontier: Ambulatory and Outpatient Surgical Safety and Quality

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The Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) can be a very safe place for the patient to receive surgical care so long as the Governing Board and leadership team strive to follow the rules, regulations, and standards that govern ASCs. The key to a successful outcome for a patient is a highly trained staff who understands the principles of safe practice. The ambulatory industry is ever-expanding and the increasingly complicated cases are driving the need for ASCs to track patient outcomes and closely assess their practice for quality safe care for the patient.

“Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources, only success can tell the one from the other.”—Mach, 1905, p. 84

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    Beverly A. Kirchner BSN

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  1. Department of Surgery Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Juan A. Sanchez

  2. Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation and Kyle John Rymiszewski Research Scholar, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

    Paul Barach

  3. Department of Surgery Center for Healthcare Studies Institute for Public Health and Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Julie K. Johnson

  4. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA

    Jeffrey P. Jacobs

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Kirchner, B.A. (2017). The Next Frontier: Ambulatory and Outpatient Surgical Safety and Quality. In: Sanchez, J., Barach, P., Johnson, J., Jacobs, J. (eds) Surgical Patient Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44010-1_23

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