Title
Implications of minimally invasive therapy
Author
Banta, H.D.
Schersten, T.
Jonsson, E.
Instituut voor Verouderings- en Vaatziekten Onderzoek TNO
Publication year
1993
Abstract
The field of minimally invasive therapy (MIT) raises many important issues for the future of health care. It seems inevitable that MIT will replace much conventional surgery. This trend is good for society and good for patients. The health care system, however, may find the change disruptive. The need for hospital beds will shrink. Day surgery and community care will grow. Physicians will have to have special training in doing the new procedures. New organizational forms of care will evolve. Quality assurance procedures will be needed to assure that out-of-hospital care is safe and effective. One negative consequence of MIT is that the indications broaden, so that many 'preventive' procedures may be carried out. Societies are doing little to face up to these changes. The potential of MIT could be enhanced by active policy interventions, including evaluation and attention to the organization and financing of health care.
Subject
Health
Communication
Day surgery
Minimally invasive therapy
Quality assurance
Training
ambulatory surgery
article
biomedical technology assessment
cost benefit analysis
health care delivery
health care policy
health care quality
mass communication
medicine
organization and management
patient
surgery
therapy
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Delivery of Health Care
Diffusion of Innovation
Europe
Health Policy
Hospitals
Human
Patient Participation
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Specialties, Medical
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
Therapeutics
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-8510(93)90014-g
TNO identifier
232393
ISSN
0168-8510
Source
Health Policy, 23 (1-2), 167-177
Document type
article