Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery
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Multicenter Study
Assessing the safety of outpatient ventral hernia repair: a NSQIP analysis of 7666 patients.
Given the paucity of literature on outpatient ventral hernia repair (VHR), and that assessment of the safety of outpatient surgical procedures is becoming an active area of investigation, we have performed a multi-institutional retrospective analysis benchmarking rates of 30-day complications and readmissions and identifying predictive factors for these outcomes. ⋯ We have demonstrated that the risk of peri-operative morbidity in VHR as granularly defined in our study is low in the outpatient setting. Identification of predictive factors will be important to patient risk stratification.