Ambulatory Surgery Centers Seeing Older, Sicker Patients

Boston—The demographic characteristics of patients presenting for ambulatory surgery are changing—they are older and sicker, a databa se review has confirmed. The analysis concluded that the proportion of ambulatory surgery patients having challenging medical conditions that influence their health status increased significantly between 2006 and 2010.

“Although the criteria for outpatient surgery selection have become less restrictive in recent years, the