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Archive > January, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 1

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Working on the Weekends
Who's Opening Their ORs on Saturdays?
How much longer will Saturday be a day of rest in outpatient surgery? More than one-fifth (21 percent) of hospitals perform non-emergency outpatient cases on Saturdays, according to our reader survey. And while only 2.4 percent of ambulatory surgery centers we surveyed are doing so now, another 4 percent are thinking about adding weekend surgeries.

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