Assessment of a Standardized Pre-Operative Telephone Checklist Designed to Avoid Late Cancellation of Ambulatory Surgery: The AMBUPROG Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: To assess the impact of a standardized pre-operative telephone checklist on the rate of late cancellations of ambulatory surgery (AMBUPROG trial).

Design: Multicenter, two-arm, parallel-group, open-label randomized controlled trial.

Setting: 11 university hospital ambulatory surgery units in Paris, France.

Increasing ambulatory surgery potential by non-medicalized accommodation: matched comparison of the 2011 national hospital activity data to 66 local stays.

Introduction: Several policy and cultural factors still hinder the development of ambulatory surgery (AS) in France. Our surgery unit developed a day-surgery approach with extension of a non-medicalized post-operative stay in a hotel-like structure within the hospital, called an "ambulotel". The present study aims to evaluate the potential of this approach in increasing the possibilities of ambulatory surgery by comparing our stays to those of a nationwide database.