Deaths rise with shift from in-hospital to outpatient procedures for common urology surgeries, study shows
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 15:01
in Health & Medicine
As hospitals have shifted an array of common urological surgeries from inpatient procedures to outpatient, potentially preventable deaths have increased following complications. The study also identified older, sicker, minority patients and those with public insurance as more likely to die after a potentially recognizable or preventable complication.