A Comparison of 30-Day Hospital Readmission and Complication Rates After Outpatient Versus Inpatient 1 and 2 Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Surgery: An Analysis of a Medicare Patient Sample

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures 19%
• Comorbidity 7%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 12%
• Databases 6%
• Diskectomy 100%
• Elderly 6%
• Health Care Costs 9%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 6%
• Incidence 4%
• Inpatients 64%
• Medicare 83%
• Myocardial Infarction 7%
• Outpatients 60%
• Patient Readmission 92%
• Postoperative Complications 34%
• Pulmonary Embolism 9%
• Pulmonary Infarction 15%
• Surgical Wound Infection 11%
• Urinary Tract Infections 9%
• Venous Thrombosis 9%