What Is Ambulatory Care?
Ambulatory care refers to medical services performed on an outpatient basis, without admission to a hospital or other facility. Ambulatory care is provided in settings such as dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, hospital outpatient departments, and the offices of physicians and other health professionals.
The Changing Landscape of Healthcare
Over the past several decades, we have witnessed a significant shift in healthcare delivery from the acute, inpatient hospital setting to a variety of outpatient and community-based settings.
Outpatient care is provided in hospital-based outpatient clinics, non hospital-based clinics and physician offices, ambulatory surgical centers, and many other specialized settings. Americans have frequent encounters with outpatient settings.
For example, more than three-quarters of all operations in the United States are performed in settings outside the hospital. In addition, between 1995 and 2007, the average person made three visits each year to physician offices. By 2007, the total number of physician offices visits approached one billion.
In these settings, adapting transmission prevention guidelines is challenging because patients remain in common areas for prolonged periods waiting to be seen by a healthcare provider or awaiting admission to the hospital, examination or treatment rooms are turned around quickly with limited cleaning, and infectious patients may not be recognized immediately.
All healthcare settings, regardless of the level of care provided, must make infection prevention a priority and must be equipped to observe Standard Precautions.
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