Outpatient surgery reduces short-term complications in lumbar discectomy: An analysis of 4310 patients from the ACS-NSQIP database

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Diskectomy 100%
• Quality Improvement 78%
• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures 77%
• Inpatients 64%
• Surgeons 57%
• Databases 48%
• Propensity Score 43%
• Outpatients 30%
• Logistic Models 19%
• Length of Stay 15%
• Current Procedural Terminology 14%
• Regression Analysis 13%
• Selection Bias 11%
• Wound Infection 10%
• Operative Time 9%
• Blood Transfusion 9%
• Patient Satisfaction 9%
• Patient Selection 8%
• Postoperative Complications 8%
• Cohort Studies 6%
• Odds Ratio 6%
• Prospective Studies 6%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 6%
• Confidence Intervals 6%
• Morbidity 5%
• Safety 5%
• Incidence 4%