- What's New in 2026
- Patient Rights and Ethics
- Preventing Patient Harm
- Medication Safety
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Care for Elective Outpatient Surgery Patients
- Clinicians Certified in Adult Advanced Life Support Always Present
- Safe Surgery Checklist - Elective Outpatient Surgery
- Experience of Patients Undergoing Elective Outpatient Surgery
- Rate of Unplanned Hospital Visits within 7 days of an Outpatient Colonoscopy
- Rate of Unplanned Hospital Visits within 7 Days of an Orthopedic Surgery at an ASC
- Rate of Unplanned Hospital Visits Within 7 Days of a Urology Surgery at an ASC
- Rate of Unplanned Hospital Visits Within 7 Days of a General Surgery at an ASC
- Percentage of Cataract Surgery Patients Who Had a Unplanned Additional Eye Surgery (Anterior Virectomy)
- Percentage of Patients Who Are Transferred or Admitted to a Hospital Upon Discharge from the ASC
- Elective Outpatient Surgery for Adults and Children
- Complex Adult Surgery
Care for Elective Outpatient Surgery Patients
Surgery centers can deliver safer care by ensuring properly trained and certified staff are onsite and using tools like the Safe Surgery Checklist to minimize errors, and by regularly surveying patients who've had a same-day procedure on experience in the facility.