Clinical and Cost Implications of Inpatient Versus Outpatient Orthopedic Surgeries: A Systematic Review of the Published Literature.

11 Aynardi and colleagues (2014) found that patients who underwent outpatient surgery reported more complications (although this did not reach statistical significance and included post-operative desaturations, intraoperative EKG changes and intra-operative non-displaced cal-car femorale fractures) but incurred significantly less final cost than the inpatient cohort. 13 Discussion Our paper provides a summary of the published literature in North America evaluating outpatient orthopedic surgery on cost and patient outcomes.

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