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The Value of Hysteroscopy
Author(s) -
Gillespie Arnold,
Nichols Amanda
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1994.tb01045.x
Subject(s) - hysteroscopy , medicine , curettage , outpatient clinic , cervix , patient satisfaction , general hospital , general surgery , obstetrics , emergency medicine , surgery , cancer
Summary: This study is a report of the first 200 diagnostic hysteroscopic procedures undertaken on 191 patients, in the Gynaecological Outpatient Department of a busy general hospital. One hundred and sixty examinations were conducted successfully. The study demonstrated that outpatient hysteroscopy is valuable to the patient by avoiding hospitalization and general anaesthesia, valuable to the nursing and medical staff by increasing job satisfaction and valuable to the hospital by reducing expensive inpatient costs. The potential reduction to the Australian national health budget, by the adoption of outpatient hysteroscopy instead of inpatient dilatation of the cervix and curettage, is calculated to be in excess of $60,000,000 per annum.