Moving Minor Hand Surgeries Out of the Operating Room and Into the Office-Based Procedure Room: A Population-Based Trend Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our primary purpose was to quantify the proportion of minor hand surgeries performed in the procedure room (PR) setting in a population-based cohort. Given the increase in the literature that has emerged since the mid-2000s highlighting the benefits of the PR setting, we hypothesized that a trend analysis would reveal increased utilization over time.

Methods

We used the 2006-2017 MarketScan Commercial Database to identify adults who underwent isolated minor hand surgeries performed in PR and operation room surgical settings in the United States. The Cochran-Armitage trends test was used to determine whether the proportion of all procedures (PR + operation room) changed over time.

Results

A total of 257,581 surgeries were included in the analysis, of which 24,9

SUBMITTER: Randall DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731346 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature