Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 90% of elective anesthetics have been ambulatory: A retrospective analysis of statewide data in Florida from 2010 through 2022
Authors' conclusion
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the mean quarterly percentage of elective surgery cases with anesthesia in Florida that were ambulatory has been reliably ≈90%.
Study context
- Population
- Elective major therapeutic and diagnostic procedures with >0 ASA base units, Florida inpatient and ambulatory surgery databases, 2010–2022
- Participants
- 22,584,752 surgical cases
- Outcome
- Mean percentage of elective cases with 0- or 1-day LOS since lifting of pandemic restrictions (reached 90%?)
- Follow-up
- 8 quarters, 2021 to 2022
Methodological detailsstatewide administrative databases
- Statewide administrative databases
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Elective cases with LOS 0 or 1 day, 8 quarters after end of pandemic restrictions · 2021 to 2022
Stable, mean percentage of elective cases with LOS 0 or 1 day
90%
95% two-sided CI
89.4% to 90.3%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Elective anesthetics with LOS ≤1 day, 2010–2020
- Increased progressively from 2010 through 2020
Original publication
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 90% of elective anesthetics have been ambulatory: A retrospective analysis of statewide data in Florida from 2010 through 2022. J Clin Anesth. Published 2 September 2024. doi:10.
Composed by AI from the published abstract and checked against it. How Briefs are made →