The term healthcare-associated infection (HAI) refers to infections associated with healthcare delivery in any setting (e.g., hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory settings, and home care).
Further studies are needed in ambulatory settings to assess the generalizability of the findings.
To develop and test a tool for obtaining patient evaluations of the quality of pharmacy services provided in ambulatory settings.
Nonadherence with scheduled saliva sampling, as encountered in ambulatory settings, can bias the estimation of salivary cortisol concentrations.
The financial cost of prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to adults with sore throat in all ambulatory settings in the USA from 1997 to 2010 was $500 million.
We used national survey data from ambulatory settings to examine the depression treatment patterns and predictors among stroke survivors in the United States (US).
Endoscopists are performing greater numbers of procedures, often on patients with complex conditions, in ambulatory settings because of changing patient demographics and referral patterns.
To develop a cost-efficient method for identifying adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication errors (MEs) identified using outpatient electronic medical records within ambulatory settings.
Most patients (n = 735, 81.4 %) were treated in private ambulatory settings, while the remainder (n = 168, 18.6 %) came from hospital ambulatory settings.
Considering the process of drug alerting at the point of prescribing in ambulatory settings is important.
Further studies conducted in ambulatory settings might rate drugs-based acute or milder categories differently.
