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Professor and classmates, it wasn’t long ago that most surgeries and many medical diagnostic procedures required patients to plan for an inpatient hospital stay. How times have changed, its almost getting to the point that having a baby is one day going to be considered an outpatient thing! Ok Ok just kidding but I remember when my first son was born 20 years ago my wife was in the hospital for about 3 days to recover, when my second child was born, 10 years later, they wanted her to leave the following morning. But looking at the times and how things are changing, you can say that clinical innovation, patient preferences and financial incentives are tilting the balance in fabor of outpatient settings for hospital services. Some of this change is driven by patient preference, and clinical techniques that reduce complications and allow patients to return home sooner. I think people are embracing this because not many people like staying days in the hospital and prefer to recover in the comfort of their own home. Financial incentives have played a huge role in healthcare shifting away from traditional hospital inpatient care. Health plans and government program payment policies support providing services in lower-cost settings like outpatient facilities. Hospitals are investing more in outpatient facilities, from full scale service centers to urgent care centers to standalone emergency departments, all because they are seeing that they can generate more revenue.
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The issue of long patient waits has attracted increasing public attention due to the negative effects of waiting on patients’ satisfaction with health care. Long waiting times for patients are commonly seen in outpatient facilities, and this difficulty contributes to a range of public health issues, including impaired access to care, interruption of hospital work patterns, and patient dissatisfaction (Mohsin et al., 2007).
It is common to find patient care being postponed because of long waiting periods, and patients often spend more time waiting than actually consulting with health care providers. Among the several public health issues that might be related to long patient waits, the problem of patient dissatisfaction with care has attracted the most attention. Studies in various settings, such as military outpatient clinics, outpatient veterans administration clinics, outpatient primary care units, ambulatory services, outpatient ophthalmology clinics, outpatient orthopedic clinics, or university health service clinics have all demonstrated that patient waits are associated with various levels of patient dissatisfaction
In the coming years, there will be much more modifications in the outpatient services as there will be increased use of advanced technologies, making more available to the outpatient services.
References:
Mohsin M, Forero R, Ieraci S, Bauman AE, Young L, Santiano N; Emerg Med J. 2007 Mar; 24(3):175-9
Patient and physician satisfaction with an outpatient care visit. Probst, JC, Greenhouse, DL, Selassie, AW J Fam Pract. 1997 Nov; 45(5):418-25
Writing reply/ response Assignment