Deaths rise with shift from in-hospital to outpatient procedures for urology surgeries

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/hfhs-drw081414.php

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 19-Aug-2014

Contact: Dwight Angell
Henry Ford Health System
Deaths rise with shift from in-hospital to outpatient procedures for urology surgeries

DETROIT – As hospitals have shifted an array of common urological surgeries from inpatient procedures to outpatient, potentially preventable deaths have increased following complications.

Those were the primary findings of a new study led by Henry Ford Hospital researchers, who initially expected that improved mortality rates recently documented for surgery overall would also translate to commonly performed urologic surgeries.

The opposite turned out to be true.

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