OBJECTIVES To analyze trajectories of cataract surgery rates and to confirm the switch between inpatient cases and day surgery or outpatient cases. DESIGN Pooled, cross-sectional, time series analysis. METHODS Data on 20 European countries from 2004 to 2014 retrieved from the OECD. RESULTS The number of cataract surgery cases per 100,000 population has increased since 2004 (b = 31.1, p < ...

Objective: To investigate the pattern of palliative surgeries and associated costs in patients with metastatic melanoma in the USA. Methods: This was a retrospective claims-based study of patients identified using administrative claims from MarketScan® databases among patients with metastatic melanoma diagnosed between 2005 and 2011. Patient characteristics, patterns and cost of surgery, and le...

BACKGROUND Outpatient unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) has been shown to be safe and feasible when compared with inpatient surgery; however, no studies have evaluated the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of performing outpatient versus inpatient UKA. HYPOTHESIS Significant cost savings can be achieved by transitioning UKAs from an inpatient to an outpatient procedure in an outpatie...

introduction: feedback cards are recommended as a feasible tool for structured written feedback delivery in clinical education while effectiveness of this tool on the medical students’ performance is still questionable. the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of structured written feedback by cards as well as verbal feedback versus verbal feedback alone on the clinical performance ...

As more and more routine plastic surgery procedures move from the hospital to outpatient surgery facilities, plastic surgeons must be aware of the risk factors for life-threatening events that might occur in this setting. This awareness includes recognition of the signs and symptoms and the management of a rare but life-threatening condition, malignant hyperthermia. This article reviews the cur...