Day surgery: where do our efforts need to be focused? Results of a review and simulation on administrative data

Outpatient percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in selected head and neck cancer patients

“…With an adequate selection of patients, it potentially offers healthcare as effective as the traditional approach and at lower cost. Its potential advantages include the shortening of the waiting list for admission to the hospital because an increased number of beds and personnel would be available for patients with more serious pathologies [31,32].…”

A methodology to estimate the potential to move inpatient to one day surgery

“…For the same surgical procedure, there are large variations between countries and among hospitals in the same country [ 5 , 11 , 12 ]. Day surgery is not yet a common practice in many developed countries, with France [ 1 , 10 , 13 , 14 ], Italy [ 1 , 15 ], and Switzerland [ 16 , 17 ], suggesting a large potential for growth.…”

“…exemplified by a list of items, and definition in intention, based on explicit a priori criteria [ 18 ]. Some extensive lists of procedures have been proposed, mainly for reimbursement purposes [ 15 , 19 , 20 ]. These lists are useful because they give some evidence of the feasibility of such procedures during stays of less than 24 hours.…”