WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the nation's largest health care system, today announced measures to ensure that all inpatient surgeries are performed under the ...

Risk-adjusted metrics for cardiac surgery outcomes reveal significant variability in hospital performance, indicating opportunities for improvement. Predictive models for adverse outcomes include ...

A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compares outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion to inpatient cases. Study authors examined data from the Nationwide Surgical ...

From 1990 to 2014 outpatient surgery rates have grown 15.4 percent, drastically reducing the percentage of total inpatient surgeries. In 1994 there were 9.83 million inpatient surgeries and 13.15 ...

The trend towards ambulatory surgery for procedures previously limited to the inpatient setting is well established. [6,7,8,9,10,11] Trends in spinal surgery towards less invasive approaches and ...

Let's face it, nobody looks forward to surgery. When it comes to your back, neck and spine, the word "surgery" can incite feelings of fear. While some people may want to recover in the hospital under ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Results showed several surgical and patient factors were significantly associated with conversion from ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has become the first hospital system nationwide to develop and implement a new method of monitoring and classifying where complex and difficult inpatient ...

CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed significantly lower costs related to outpatient total shoulder arthroplasty when compared with inpatient ...

Medicare payments for four common types of inpatient surgery—hip replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, back surgery, and colon removal— and their follow-up care can vary among hospitals by 49 ...

Follow the money: Inpatient surgery moving out of hospitals into ambulatory centers Medical decision are being made in the hub of a large system quite the way there were just a few short years ago.