Single-Visit Surgery Offers Added Convenience and Excellent Family Satisfaction.

Background: The traditional model for elective ambulatory surgical care includes three separate visits to the surgeon: an initial consultation, a second for outpatient surgery, and a third for postoperative follow-up. Single-Visit Surgery (SVS) is an alternative model of ambulatory surgical care that consolidates care into a single appointment where patients with straightforward surgical problems are evaluated in the morning and undergo a surgical procedure later that same afternoon. In April 2016, SVS was introduced at a tertiary-care freestanding children's hospital.