Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Outpatient compared to inpatient thyroidectomy on 30-day postoperative outcomes: a national propensity matched analysis
Authors' conclusion
Thyroidectomy procedures performed in the outpatient setting had less rates of adverse events, including serious postoperative complications (e.g., surgical site infection, pneumonia, progressive renal insufficiency). In addition, patients who had thyroidectomy in the outpatient setting had less 30-day readmissions and mortality.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing primary, elective, total thyroidectomy, US ACS NSQIP institutions, 2015 to 201813,496 per group matched
- Participants
- 55,381 patients
- Exposure
- Outpatient vs inpatient total thyroidectomy
- Outpatientn = 13,496
- Inpatientn = 13,496reference
- Outcome
- Composite of any postoperative adverse event
- Follow-up
- 30 days
Methodological detailspropensity-score matched, multicentre registry (ACS NSQIP)
- Propensity-score matched
- Multicentre registry (ACS NSQIP)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Any 30-day complication
P < 0.001
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Death · propensity matched cohort
P < 0.001
Hospital readmission · propensity matched cohort
P < 0.001
Original publication
Outpatient compared to inpatient thyroidectomy on 30-day postoperative outcomes: a national propensity matched analysis. Perioper Med (Lond). Published 8 August 2023. doi:10.
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