02.05.2023 | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: It’s Time to Get the Patient Perspective on Same-Day Mastectomy
verfasst von:
Ava Ferguson Bryan, MD, MPH, Molly P. Jarman, PhD, MPH, Anna Weiss, MD, FACS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 8/2023
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Excerpt
Most breast surgical oncology procedures are performed in the outpatient or ambulatory setting, both as true same-day operations or as 23-h observation admissions. Modified radical mastectomy (MRM) has been the exception to this trend and is still largely performed in an inpatient, hospital setting.
1,2 As lack of personnel, operating room time, and inpatient bed capacity continue to threaten the ability to care for patients throughout the USA, operations that can safely be performed in an outpatient or ambulatory setting should be transitioned out of inpatient hospitals. Ample data have been available that MRM could safely be performed in an outpatient or ambulatory setting; however, the value of this practice, composed of outcomes and cost or charge, was largely unknown. …