BACKGROUND Waiting time and costs from referral to day case outpatient surgery are at an unacceptably high level. The waiting time in Norway averages 240 days for common surgical conditions. Furthermore, in North Norway the population is scattered throughout a large geographic area, making the cost of travel to a specialist examination before surgery considerable. Electronic standardised referr...

BACKGROUND Outpatient surgery saves the risk of nosocomial complications and health care dollars. Patients undergoing lumbar microsurgical discectomy are excellent candidates for outpatient surgery. The object of this study was to examine the feasibility of performing lumbar microdiscectomy on an outpatient protocol and to examine the potential savings associated with such a protocol. METHODS...

Objective The objective of this study was to examine readmissions following microlaryngeal surgery. It hypothesized that airway surgical procedures would have higher rates readmission. Design Retrospective review. Methods Outpatient surgeries from May 1, 2018 November 27, 2022 were reviewed. Readmissions related the original surgery within a 30-day postoperative period examined. Patient demogra...

STUDY DESIGN Level III. PURPOSE To retrospectively review the eligibility of surgical patients meeting predetermined outpatient surgery criteria in a single-surgeon private practice. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There is a burgeoning awareness among patients, surgeons, and insurers of the cost benefits and safety of outpatient spine surgeries. At the end of 2014, Centers for Medicare & Medica...