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Topic: Ambulatory

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ambulatory
		An ambulatory without radiating chapels is so rare in Romanesque work that supposed examples should be regarded as doubtful.
		Sometimes there is a rectangular ambulatory, as in the Romsey eastern chapel.
		Ambulatories are constructed either on the inside or outside of a building, or in a public thoroughfare wholly or partially under cover, or entirely open to the sky, and are used only to walk in.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01406b.htm (181 words)

	UC Davis Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine - Ambulatory Anesthesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ambulatory anesthesia is used for surgical procedures where the patient does not need to stay overnight in the hospital.
		Appropriate procedures for ambulatory surgery are those associated with postoperative care that is easily managed at home, and with low rates of postoperative complications that require intensive physician or nursing management.
		Sometimes called ambulatory anesthesia, special medications and techniques are used when a patient is expected to go home as soon as possible on the same day of the surgery.
	www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /anesthesiology/specialties/ambulatory.html (802 words)

	Conference Synthesis: Research Agenda for Ambulatory Patient Safety (continued)
		The organization of ambulatory health care—particularly of physician practices—reflects health care of a far simpler time, and has not kept up with the rapid development of medical science and of diagnostic and therapeutic capability, and the increase in the clinical, technological, and logistical complexity of ambulatory care.
		In ambulatory care, everything happens in context of the patient's entire life and work and family; in hospital, the patient is temporarily removed or distanced from many of these influences.
		Between 1980 and 1997 ambulatory surgeries as a proportion of all surgeries increased from 16.3 percent to 60.7 percent (NCHS 1999b).
	www.ahrq.gov /about/cpcr/ptsafety/ambpts2.htm (3472 words)

	Ambulatory Surgery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With ambulatory surgery, you come to the hospital in the morning, have your operation and are home the same evening, or in some cases, early the following day.
		Ambulatory surgery may be chosen for procedures too complex to be performed in a physician's office, but are relatively uncomplicated and do not require hospitalization.
		After ambulatory surgery, a patient's continued care is monitored by a doctor and nurse in the Ambulatory Surgery Suite.
	www.brookdale.edu /html/surgery/ambulatory_surgery.html (888 words)

	Ambulatory Visits
		To identify ambulatory visits there is a new SAS macro available on the MCHP computer systems to add a flag to the data (see: _ambvis.sas).
		Consultative Care includes Ambulatory visits in which the patient is referred by one physician seeking the opinion of another physician because of "complexity, obscurity, or seriousness" of a patient's illness, or because a second opinion is requested either by patient or another person acting on the patient's behalf.
		All pre-natal and post-partum care visits are excluded from the ambulatory visit definition because the majority are provided as part of a global tariff, specifically visits claimed at the time of delivery.
	www.umanitoba.ca /centres/mchp/concept/dict/ambulatory.html (1888 words)

	Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring: Clinical Utility in the Family Practice Setting - June 1, 2003 - ...
		Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring may be particularly helpful in clinical situations such as borderline hypertension, white-coat hypertension, apparent drug resistance, hypotensive symptoms from medications or autonomic dysfunction, episodic hypertension, and evaluation of antihypertensive efficacy.
		Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), although previously considered only a research instrument, may be useful in the management of some of the nearly 50 million adults in the United States with hypertension.
		Ambulatory blood pressure technology does not come cheaply, with monitoring equipment and software estimated to cost approximately $4,500 to $5,500 for a fully equipped office.
	www.aafp.org /afp/20030601/2343.html (2954 words)

	Ambulatory Care for the Urban Poor: Structure, Financing, and System Stability
		Specifically, this study describes each community's ambulatory care safety net, the challenges each community faces and their responses to these challenges, and the possible determinants of the level of success each has achieved in meeting the ambulatory care needs of their vulnerable populations.
		While ambulatory care generally refers to any care not provided in an inpatient setting and may even include specialty care at a hospital outpatient department, it is important to note that this report focuses on non-hospital-based primary and preventive care provided in a clinic setting.
		A strong ambulatory care system within the safety net is then the result of decisions based on the interests of both patient care and long-term institutional survival.
	www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=310347 (1431 words)

	Conference Synthesis: Research Agenda for Ambulatory Patient Safety (continued)
		Studies have focused on particular components of ambulatory care (e.g., ambulatory surgery centers, office based surgery), population groups (e.g., the elderly), procedures (e.g., endoscopy), and there are a number of studies of medication use.
		Most ambulatory sites are subject to less regulation, less peer interaction, and have less well developed policies and procedures (e.g., credentialing and privileging) to determine the training and experience required to perform surgery and invasive procedures, or to manage sedation and anesthesia.
		For example, one study that investigated the question of preventable medical error in primary care ambulatory settings used a risk management database to isolate the prevalence of adverse events and assess whether or not an event was due to medical error and could have been prevented (Fischer et al.
	www.ahrq.gov /about/cpcr/ptsafety/ambpts3.htm (4297 words)

	eMedicine - Ambulatory Surgery : Article Excerpt by: Lynnus Peng, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ambulatory surgery refers to elective surgery in which people having surgery arrive and return home on the same day.
		Ambulatory surgery is also referred to as outpatient surgery or same-day surgery.
		Ambulatory surgery is suited best for healthy people undergoing minor or intermediate procedures—those involving the extremities along with limited urological, ophthalmological, or ear, nose, and throat procedures.
	www.emedicine.com /aaem/byname/ambulatory-surgery.htm (249 words)

	Ambulatory Anesthesia
		The recently expanded ambulatory surgical center at Tisch Hospital is a free-standing outpatient unit with 10 operating rooms and its own recovery room.
		The responsibility of an ambulatory anesthesiologist includes ensuring the safety of a patient for a procedure in an outpatient setting.
		In the recovery room, the ambulatory anesthesiologist must ascertain the patient's readiness level to be released from the hospital.
	www.med.nyu.edu /anes/divisions/ambulatory.html (240 words)

	Conference Synthesis: Research Agenda for Ambulatory Patient Safety (continued)
		This report of a multidisciplinary conference to develop an agenda for research in ambulatory patient safety is a synthesis of the presentations and discussions of conference participants, who included researchers, clinicians, ambulatory care administrators, purchasers, and policymakers (Appendix One).
		A summary conclusion from this conference, consistent with other reports on patient safety in ambulatory care, is that there is inadequate knowledge and understanding of the ambulatory care sector of the health care system in general, and of patient safety in ambulatory care in particular.
		Some patient populations would be expected to be at greater risk in general and in ambulatory care in particular: persons with psychiatric disorders (including common mood disorder), comorbid illnesses, children and the elderly, the homeless, hearing impaired, those with language and culture differences, and those with reduced access for financial and other reasons.
	www.ahcpr.gov /about/cpcr/ptsafety/ambpts1.htm (4384 words)

	Ambulatory Care
		We noticed that some ambulatory care patients were not compliant with prescribed medical regimens and often had repeated visits back to clinics before their next scheduled appointment due to destabilization of health status.
		Lack of an ambulatory care component impeded the delivery of care: continuity was lacking, patients were often unable to identify their provider, unscheduled care was managed in the ER/Triage area, and patients requiring close follow-up in the ambulatory setting were often seen by a different provider at every visit.
		After admission to the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) and screening by the Acute Care Nurse, a new POW patient is referred to the secretary who serves as the point of contact for all POWs.
	www.va.gov /medical/Ambulatorycare.htm (19140 words)

	Ambulatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A cloister, gallery, or alley; a sheltered place, straight or circular, for exercise in walking; the aisle that makes the circuit of the apse of a church.
		The central eastern apse of a church was often encircled by a semicircular aisle, called the ambulatory.
		The term is sometimes applied to a covered way round a building, such as the space between the columns and cella of a peripteral temple, or around an open space as the cloisters of a monastic church, as the Campo Santo at Pisa, or the atrium of an ancient basilica, e.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/ambulatory.html (201 words)

	AMBULATORY MEDICINE
		At the conclusion of the ambulatory medicine rotation, when presented with a patient and his/her diagnoses, physical findings, laboratory results, medication list, and other pertinent information, in addition to the general core rotation objectives, the student will be able to:
		Time on the ambulatory care rotation is divided between Memorial Hospital, a 656 bed comprehensive health care facility, and the Fort Wayne Medical Education Family Practice Clinic.
		The Ambulatory Care rotation for pharmacy students is a Monday through Friday rotation in the Ambulatory Care Clinics at this medical center.
	www.utoledo.edu /Colleges/Pharmacy/Pharmacy_Practice/ambulatory_medicine.htm (3323 words)

	Ambulatory Medicine
		The Division coordinates support services for over 27,000 ambulatory visits annually to the office suites at St. Louis Children's Hospital and over 10,000 visits to the Missouri Baptist Medical Center office.
		Ambulatory Medicine staff urges parents to arrange visits to their specialists in cooperation with their child's primary physician.
		The mission of Ambulatory Medicine is to improve the health of children and adolescents and thus the faculty also pursues scholarly interests, including clinical research, basic research and medical education.
	www.stlouischildrens.org /tabid/89/itemid/174/Ambulatory-Medicine.aspx (567 words)

	ABC of hypertension: Blood pressure measurement -- O'Brien et al. 322 (7294): 1110 -- BMJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ambulatory blood pressure measurement causes inconvenience to patients, and it should be used, therefore, with discretion.
		Conventional and ambulatory blood pressure as predictors of cardiovascular risk in older patients with systolic hypertension.
		Ambulatory blood pressure in pregnancy and fetal growth.
	www.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/322/7294/1110 (2581 words)

	Temple Medicine: Internal Medicine Residency Program Ambulatory Curriculum
		A dedicated conference on ambulatory care is held weekly for all medical housestaff.
		The topic is usually tied to the ambulatory care conference that week but can include certain topics more amenable to a small group setting.
		A one month Ambulatory rotation is required in each of the three years of residency.
	www.temple.edu /medicine/departments_centers/clinical_departments/medicine_residency_ambulatory_care.htm (770 words)

	Duke Anesthesiology - Ambulatory Anesthesia
		The Division of Ambulatory Anesthesia is responsible for the delivery of all anesthesia services at the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC), which opened to patients on July 13, 1998, in the North Pavilion.
		The Division of Ambulatory Anesthesia is distinguished as a Center of Excellence in regional anesthesia.
		Upon release in December of 2004, the beautifully illustrated and written textbook, entitled “Ambulatory Anesthesia and Perioperative Analgesia” promises to be a “must have” for those clinicians interested in the increasingly utilized and important subject of ambulatory anesthesia.
	anesthesia.duhs.duke.edu /divisions/ambulatory.html (1613 words)

	Position Statement on Ambulatory Teaching
		Exposure to patients in the ambulatory care setting provides an excellent opportunity for students and residents to encounter the rheumatic diseases and other musculoskeletal conditions in all of their various stages, including crucial early stages.
		Because of the wide areas of common interest and coordination of care among a variety of specialists, rheumatologists are also excellent teachers for residents and students who are primarily focused on orthopedics, physical medicine, neurology, podiatry, and other areas of health.
		The costs associated with ambulatory teaching and the lack of funds to finance these costs are significant barriers to ambulatory care teaching.
	www.rheumatology.org /publications/position/ambulatoryteach.asp?aud=stu (687 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Patterns of ambulatory care utilization in Taiwan
		The ambulatory visit files of the 200,000-person cohort datasets from the National Health Insurance Research Database in 2002 were analyzed.
		In 2002, 69.6% of all ambulatory care visits were at physician clinics, 28.6% at outpatient departments, and 1.8% as emergency visits.
		By contrast, according to the National Health Care Survey in the USA [11], visits to physician offices accounted for 80.6% of all ambulatory care visits in 1999-200, while the outpatient departments of hospitals had only 8.6% of visits and the emergency departments as high as 10.8%.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1472-6963/6/54 (3518 words)

	N C H S - National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery
		The basic study population for the NSAS is patients scheduled for surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed in hospital-based and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers.
		The universe of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers includes facilities which are state licensed or Medicare certified or which provide ambulatory surgery as the primary business activity and operate independently as a separate business.
		The growth of freestanding ambulatory surgery facilities and ambulatory surgery programs in hospitals has been rapid, and the decline of these procedures on an inpatient basis has been documented by the NHDS.
	www.cdc.gov /nchs/nsas.htm (1787 words)

	eMedicine - Ambulatory Electroencephalography (EEG) : Article by Elizabeth J Waterhouse, MD
		Ambulatory electroencephalography (AEEG) monitoring is a relatively recent technology that allows prolonged EEG recording in the home setting.
		While arrhythmias have been diagnosed with continuous ambulatory EEG/ECG recording, a study of epileptiform abnormalities in AEEG found that only 1 of 67 patients with syncope, near syncope, or episodic dizziness had an epileptiform abnormality.
		Schomer DL, Ives JR, Schachter SC: The role of ambulatory EEG in the evaluation of patients for epilepsy surgery.
	www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic445.htm (3068 words)

	Zimmer Ambulatory Pump
		The catheter is attached to the pump which automatically directs medication to the source of pain, not the rest of the body.
		The Zimmer Ambulatory Pump is designed to deliver an even distribution of the medication for up to 72 hours to help stop the constant dulling pain associated with surgery, and eliminate the need for other types of pain killers or narcotics.
		Another benefit is that Zimmer’s pump is ambulatory, or portable, which means you can move, walk, sleep – whatever your physician has approved – while the pump is in place.
	www.zimmer.com /z/ctl/op/global/action/1/id/9444/template/PC/prcat/P8/prod/y (604 words)

	Eclipsys Sunrise Ambulatory Care(TM) Receives CCHIT Certification - Health - RedOrbit
		Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician offices and clinics where most Americans get their healthcare.
		Eclipsys will be demonstrating Sunrise Ambulatory care at Booth #218 at the MGMA 2006 Annual Conference from October 22-25.
		Because nearly half of ambulatory workload comes from dealing with phone calls, messages and paperwork generated from previous visits, Sunrise Ambulatory Care provides a comprehensive overview of patient data, including both inpatient and outpatient orders, results, documentation, medications and allergies in a single view.
	www.redorbit.com /news/health/703287/eclipsys_sunrise_ambulatory_caretm_receives_cchit_certification/index.html?source=r_health (1042 words)

	Ambulatory Service - BWH Department of Radiology
		The Ambulatory Service of the Department of Radiology is located on the first floor of the Ambulatory Services building at 45 Francis Street.
		Ambulatory Radiology is located in the Ambulatory Services building on the first level.
		The Ambulatory Division is marked "Radiology" and is located about halfway down the hall on your right.
	www.brighamandwomens.org /radiology/Patient/ambulatoryServices.aspx (882 words)

	Ambulatory Electrocardiography
		Ambulatory electrocardiography (AM'bu-lah-tor-e e-lek"tro-kar"de-OG'rah-fe) is also called Holter monitoring, ambulatory ECG or ambulatory EKG.
		In it, a patient wears a small recorder called a Holter monitor as he or she goes about normal daily life.
		Ambulatory EKG is mainly used to document and describe abnormal electrical activity in the heart.
	www.americanheart.org /presenter.jhtml?identifier=4425 (177 words)

	UMHS - Ambulatory Care Services - Association Links
		The American Association of Ambulatory Surgical Centers is a physician-led national association dedicated to advancing high-quality patient care in ambulatory surgical facilities.
		The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) is the association of professional nurses and associates who identify ambulatory care practice as essential to the continuum of high-quality, cost-effective health care.
		If you are an RN, LPN or LVN providing ambulatory care, or another professional in an ambulatory care environment, we encourage you to join AAACN — the only specialty nursing association that focuses on excellence in ambulatory care.
	www.med.umich.edu /careers/careers/ambulatory/links.html (329 words)

	Ambulatory Care Programs - Funds Flow, Strategic Growth, and Program Planning
		Ambulatory Funds Flow – Ensuring that funds are available and incentives aligned to promote ambulatory growth and stewardship of resources.
		We recently assisted a large AMC in the midwest with evaluating the feasibility of a new ambulatory facility.
		The choice of freestanding or provider-based designation (also known as hospital-based) for ambulatory clinics is a commonly debated issue in academic settings.
	www.ecgmc.com /services/ambulatory_care_programs.asp (626 words)

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