Adopting Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery as the Standard of Care in an Asian Population

Table 5

Details of surgical outcomes in patients who had undergone ambulatory surgery and inpatient surgery ().

Characteristics	Ambulatory surgery; ()	Inpatient surgery; ()	value
Number of readmissions within 30 days	37	25	0.07
Median length of stay following readmission (days)	3 (1–27)	4 (1–17)	0.07
Complications			0.69
Wound hematoma or bleeding	15	7
Wound infection	13	9
Wound dehiscence	0	4
Wound pain	3	0
Drain complications^a	0	5
Others^b	6	0
Number of reoperations	10	5	0.77
Wound exploration and haemostasis	8	1
Wound debridement	2	1
Secondary suture of wound	0	3

^aHigh drain output, drain dislodgement. ^bSyncope in 3 patients, lower limb deep venous thrombosis in 1 patient, diarrhoea in 1 patient, and hyperkalemia in 1 patient.