A new way to effectively track patient safety in the outpatient setting

Becker's Healthcare August 4, 2023
In Collaboration with 3M

In recent years, ambulatory surgery center (ASC) growth in the United States has been astronomical. For many hospitals and health systems, this growth in the number of ASC procedures has occurred while the number of inpatient surgeries has either been flat or declined.

Despite these trends, safety in the ambulatory setting has been a blind spot for many quality teams. During a recent Becker’s Hospital Review webinar sponsored by 3M Health Information Systems, three experts on outpatient safety discussed how a new methodology can be used to monitor, measure and improve patient safety:

• Danielle Bowen Scheurer, MD, chief quality officer, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, S.C.
• Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, global chief medical officer, 3M Health Information...

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