ABSTRACT
If outpatient hysteroscopy is to be judged as successful, it needs to provide the clinician with useful diagnostic information that influences subsequent management. Patient outcomes should be optimized and women satisfied with their overall experience. The outpatient setting can present many challenges, with the conscious patient being generallyless forgiving of induced discomfort or prolonged procedures arising from poor hysteroscopic technique. It is therefore essential that the fundamentals of good diagnostic technique are mastered. Once diagnostic competence is established such that manipulation and orientation of the hysteroscope becomes second nature to the operator, then outpatient hysteroscopy can be taken to the next level with operative procedures being routinely undertaken.
