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A typical assessment and treatment space for patients in an ambulatory care clinic. Sites where ambulatory care can be delivered include: Doctor's surgeries/Doctor's offices/General medical practice: This is the most common site for the delivery of ambulatory care in many countries, and usually consists of a physician's visit.
Ambulatory Patient Group (APG) is a classification system for outpatient services reimbursement developed for the American Medicare service by the Health Care Financing Administration. [1] It classifies patients into nearly 300 pathology groups rather than the 14,000 of the International Classification of Diseases .
Ambulatory care nurses use evidence based information across a variety of outpatient health care settings to achieve and ensure patient safety and quality of care while improving patient outcomes. Contact with patients in ambulatory care is often relatively brief, and in the context of a high volume of patients.
Outpatient surgery, also known as ambulatory surgery, day surgery, [1] day case surgery, or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. [note 1] The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may enter and leave the facility on the same day. The advantages of outpatient surgery over ...
A general out-patient clinic offers general diagnoses or treatments without an overnight stay. A polyclinic or policlinic provides a range of healthcare services (including diagnostics) without need of an overnight stay; A specialist clinic provides advanced diagnostic or treatment services for specific diseases or parts of the body. This type ...
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Patient services are usually initiated as medical orders by a referring physician and reviewed by the admitting nurse. As part of the admission assessment the primary nurse also determines the nursing orders based on the signs and symptoms, diagnoses, and expected outcomes/goals; and together, form the plan of care that requires the nursing ...
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