Abstract
Background
With the rising cost of healthcare delivery and bundled payments for episodes of care, there has been impetus to minimize hospitalization and increase utilization of outpatient surgery mechanisms. Given the increase in outpatient mastectomy and immediate tissue expander (TE)-based reconstruction and the paucity of data on its comparative safety to inpatient procedures, we sought to understand the risk for early postoperative complications in an outpatient model compared with more traditional inpatient status using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.
Methods
NSQIP data files from 2005 to 2012 were queried to identify patients undergoing immediate TE-based breast reconstruction after mastectomy. Patients were stratified by whether they received outpatient or inpatient care and then propensity score matched based on preoperative baseline characteristics to produce matched cohorts. Multivariate regression analysis was used to determine whether outpatient versus inpatient status conferred differing risk for 30-days complications.
Results
Of the 2014 patients who met criteria, 1:1 propensity matching yielded 634 patients in each of the matched cohorts. Overall complications (5.2 vs. 5.4 %), overall surgical complications (4.3 vs. 3.9 %), overall medical complications (1.3 vs. 2.1 %), and return to the operating room (6.6 vs. 7.3 %) were similar between outpatient and inpatients cohorts (p > .2), respectively. There was a small, but significant increased risk of organ/space SSI in outpatients (1.9 vs. 0.5 %, p = .02) and trend for increased risk for pulmonary embolus (PE) and urinary tract infection (UTI) in inpatients (0.3 vs. 0 %, p = .16; 0.3 vs. 0 %, p = .16).
Conclusions
Our studies suggest that outpatient TE confers similar safety profiles to inpatient TE with regards to 30-day postoperative overall complications, medical and surgical morbidity, and return to the operating room. A slightly increased risk for surgical site infection must be balanced against potential risk for known inpatient-related complications such as UTI and PE.
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De-identified patient information is freely available to all institutional members who comply with the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Data Use Agreement. The Data Use Agreement implements the protections afforded by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the ACS-NSQIP Hospital Participation Agreement and conforms to the Declaration of Helsinki.
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The NSQIP and the hospitals participating in the NSQIP are the source of the data used herein; they have not been verified and are not responsible for the statistical validity of the data analysis, or the conclusions derived by the authors of this study.
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Qin, C., Antony, A.K., Aggarwal, A. et al. Assessing Outcomes and Safety of Inpatient Versus Outpatient Tissue Expander Immediate Breast Reconstruction. Ann Surg Oncol 22, 3724–3729 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-015-4407-5
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