Erasmus Mundus

faculta di medicina ed odontoiatria

abstract Day Surgery Units have been largely developed and implemented worldwide, both in the public and in the private health systems, resulting in increased efficiency in the care of surgical patients, who would otherwise be hospitalized in conventional units with increase of costs and organizational complexity. This major change has been facilitated by the diffusion of minimally invasive surgical techniques, the availability of newer anesthetic drugs and the development of new concepts in home nursing care. Due to the novelty of this care system, its important growth, the diversity of organizational, structural, functional design, as well as its important impacts on patient care and security, it has become one of the priority units in which effective organization, training, quality control and safety criteria should be determined and implemented. Our research project has a specific clinical focus on evaluation and implementation of the day care services and teaching activity of AnNajah University Hospital in Nablus by gaining in-depth knowledge of the local demand of care and resource availability, and to establish safety and quality conditions for the provision of safe and efficient services both to the community and the training facility