Editorial asks if surveillance cameras in ASCs are a good idea

Editor's Note

A proposed law would require ASCs and hospitals to install surveillance cameras in their ORs. Whether they are a good idea or not depends on why they are there, according to an editorial in Outpatient Surgery Magazine.

If they are intended to enhance performance and find out why adverse events happen, then they are a good idea. If they are used to snoop and watch every move made in a procedure then, the answer should be no, the author says.

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