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[Ambulatory surgery and incentives]. 1996

T Høsteng, and K Solheim

Kirurgisk avdeling Kongsberg sykehus.

Day surgery is more cost-effective than in-patient surgical treatment and, for certain categories of patients is also a better quality form of care. It can often replace the traditional surgical treatment of patients, i.e. an operation with hospitalisation. For this reason, day surgery should become a more common form of treatment, also in Norway. This makes it necessary to create incentives that will encourage it. This cannot be done without first developing methods for collecting data on this activity.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009664	Norway	A country located in northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, west of Sweden. The capital is Oslo.	Kingdom of Norway
D003953	Diagnosis-Related Groups	A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.	Case Mix,DRG,Diagnosis Related Group,Diagnosis-Related Group,Case Mixes,DRGs,Diagnostic-Related Group,Group, Diagnostic-Related,Groups, Diagnostic-Related,Diagnosis Related Groups,Diagnostic Related Group,Diagnostic-Related Groups,Group, Diagnosis Related,Group, Diagnosis-Related,Group, Diagnostic Related,Groups, Diagnosis Related,Groups, Diagnosis-Related,Groups, Diagnostic Related,Related Group, Diagnosis,Related Groups, Diagnosis
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D000556	Ambulatory Surgical Procedures	Surgery performed on an outpatient basis. It may be hospital-based or performed in an office or surgicenter.	Ambulatory Surgery,Day Surgery,Office Surgery,Outpatient Surgery,Surgery, Office,Surgery, Outpatient,Ambulatory Surgical Procedure,Procedure, Ambulatory Surgical,Procedures, Ambulatory Surgical,Surgery, Ambulatory,Surgery, Day,Surgical Procedure, Ambulatory,Surgical Procedures, Ambulatory,Ambulatory Surgeries,Day Surgeries,Office Surgeries,Outpatient Surgeries,Surgeries, Ambulatory,Surgeries, Day,Surgeries, Office,Surgeries, Outpatient