Inpatient Hospital Admission and Death After Outpatient Surgery in Elderly Patients

摘要: Hypothesis: Surgery at different outpatient care locations in the higher-risk elderly (age 65 years) population is associated with similar rates of inpatient hospital admission and death. Design: Claims analysis patients undergoing 16 surgical procedures a nationally representative (5%) sample Medicare beneficiaries for years 1994 through 1999. Setting: Hospital-based centers, freestanding ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), physicians’ office facilities. Patients: older than years. Main Outcome Measures: Rate death, emergency department risk, to an within 7 days surgery. Results:We studied 564267 procedures: 360780 hospital, 175288 ASC, 28199 physician’s office. There were no deaths day office, 4