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NATIONAL SURVEY FOR AMBULATORY SURGERY (NSAS)
Description:
The National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS), which was initiated by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1994, is a national survey designed to meet the need for information about the use of ambulatory surgery services in the United States. For NSAS, ambulatory surgery refers to surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed on an ambulatory (outpatient) basis in a hospital or freestanding center's general operating rooms, dedicated ambulatory surgery rooms, and other specialized rooms such as endoscopy units and cardiac catheterization labs.
Record Details:
Record Type:DATA SET
Product Published Date:12/31/1996
Record Last Revised:05/09/2005
Record ID:
132425