Table 31-1
- Advantages
- Cost containment (facility fee)
- Ease of scheduling
- Patient and surgeon convenience
- Decreased patient exposure to nosocomial infections
- Improved patient privacy
- Continuity of care
- Disadvantages
- Issues of patient safety and peer review
- May be an absence of regulations regarding certification of the surgeon or anesthesiologist
- May be an absence of documentation, policies, and procedures and reporting of adverse outcomes