Safety of outpatient adrenalectomy across 3 minimally invasive approaches at 2 academic medical centers

Outpatient adrenalectomy has the potential to decrease costs, improve inpatient capacity, and decrease patient exposure to hospital-acquired conditions. Still, the practice has yet to be widely adopted and current studies demonstrating the safety of outpatient adrenalectomy are limited by sample size, extensive exclusion criteria, and no comparison to inpatient cases. We aimed to study the characteristics and safety of outpatient adrenalectomy using the largest such sample to date across 2 academic medical centers and 3 minimally invasive approaches.

Source: Surgery - May 11, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Rajshri M. Gartland, Eva Fuentes, Jessica Fazendin, Zhi Ven Fong, Antonia Stephen, John R. Porterfield, Richard Hodin, Brenessa Lindeman Source Type: research