Ambulatory gynaecology: What can we do?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 647-661

  Mikos, Themistoklis ^a   Downes, Ellis ^a  

^a CHASE FARM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory gynaecology; Audit; Day surgery; Patient selection; Training

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLPOSCOPY; COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GYNECOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFORMED CONSENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MYOMECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITY CONTROL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL;

EID: 29144455802     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2005.06.007     Document Type: Review

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