Outpatient surgery benchmarks and practice variation patterns: Case controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite numerous potential benefits of outpatient surgery, there is currently a lack of national benchmarking data available for hospitals and surgeons to compare their own outcomes as they transition toward outpatient surgery.

Materials and methods

Patients who underwent 14 common general surgery operations from 2016-2020 were identified in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database. Operations were selected based on frequency and the ability to be performed both in- and outpatient. Postoperative complications and readmissions were compared between patients who underwent inpatient vs outpatient surgery. After adjusting for patient comorbidities, multivariable models assessed the effect of patient characteri

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11486962 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature