Outpatient operations still ignored in German hospitals
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Only modest progress has been made in achieving the German healthcare reform law (GSG)'s aim of replacing inpatient surgery with outpatient operations, according to a new study of the development of hospital outpatient operations. Nearly half of 1,448 west German hospitals polled in the survey said they had replaced very few inpatient operations, with outpatient treatment up to the beginning of 1995.